Sunak warned of Tory small boats revolt as plan likened to Trump’s ‘caging of children’

Tory moderates discussing how to amend bill to prevent child detention

Rishi Sunak has been warned by Conservative MPs that his small boats crackdown bill won’t pass through parliament unless the PM waters down his detention and deportation plan.

The Independent understands that Tory moderates are discussing how best to amend the bill at the next stage – focusing on creating stronger protections on child detention and modern slavery.

However, right-wing Tory MPs are also understood to be drawing up plans to further toughen the bill with an amendment to pull the UK out of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).