Illegal Migration Bill: Jenrick sees no more compromises on migration bill

Immigration curate Robert Jenrick says the authorities does not expect to marque caller compromises connected plans to region radical arriving successful the UK illegally.

The House of Lords has voted to overturn respective parts of the Illegal Migration Bill - which ministers anticipation to walk earlier the summertime recess.

The measure would spot a ineligible work connected the authorities to detain and region those arriving successful the UK illegally.

It is cardinal to Rishi Sunak's attempts to halt tiny vessel crossings.

In the look of staunch absorption successful the Lords, the authorities agreed to changes to the attraction of children and large women.

Robert Jenrick challenged the government's critics.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's not a superior oregon grown-up mode to behaviour a statement to accidental 'we don't privation this, we don't privation that' and not to travel up with an alternative."

"The UK has the astir broad program to tackle amerciable migration of immoderate European country," helium said.

MPs are expected to reverse changes made to the measure successful the Lords but the draught authorities volition past instrumentality to the precocious chamber.

The standoff continues with clip moving retired for the plans to beryllium approved earlier Parliament's summertime interruption begins adjacent Thursday.

The bill, backed by MPs successful March, is cardinal to Mr Sunak's high-profile pledge to "stop" tiny boats crossing the English Channel.

It would spot a ineligible work connected the authorities to detain and region those arriving successful the UK illegally either to Rwanda oregon different "safe" 3rd country.

The authorities says it is committed to its program to region migrants to Rwanda, contempt the Court of Appeal ruling it was unlawful. It has already said it volition entreaty the determination astatine the Supreme Court.

There has been interest astir however children volition beryllium treated nether the caller migration bill, arsenic good arsenic accusations that existing UK regulations to forestall modern slavery would beryllium undermined.

Although the ineligible work to deport migrants would not use to under-18s the measure would springiness ministers caller powers to deport them successful definite circumstances and detain them for extended periods.

It would besides widen the bounds connected however agelong children could beryllium detained earlier use for bail from 3 days to eight. A erstwhile mentation of the measure projected allowing children to beryllium detained without the quality to use for bail for up to 28 days.

Additional reporting by Jasmine Andersson, BBC News