Watch: Rishi Sunak faces Keir Starmer in PMQs after small boats bill announced

Watch from the Commons as Rishi Sunak faced a grilling by MPs in the wake of the unveiling of new small boats legislation.

The prime minister has made “stopping the boats” one of his five priorities amid pressure from his party to tackle migration.

Home secretary Suella Braverman laid out her new bill in the Commons on Tuesday, 7 March, leading to outcry from NGOs.

The plan would see those arriving illegally on small boats being detained within the first 28 days without bail or judicial review.

It would also ban migrants who were caught entering the UK illegally from claiming asylum or re-entering in the future.

Amnesty International warns the bill would “amount to an asylum ban.”

Braverman remained defiant that her bill does not break international law during her media rounds on Wednesday morning.

She insisted that she is “very confident” the measures “are in compliance” with obligations.

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