Meanwhile, Boris Johnson told the COVID inquiry that he should have “twigged” how serious the pandemic would become sooner. Confirmed: The immigration minister has resigned Robert Jenrick has resigned as immigration minister. It was confirmed by the home secretary in the Commons in the past few moments. Labour MP Ashley Dalton asked James Cleverly whether Mr Jenrick had resigned as immigration minister. He replied: “That has been confirmed.” (Photo: PM Sunak).

But he offered no further detail, saying questions during his Commons statement should be about the new Rwanda bill, not anything else. His decision to leave the government comes just hours after the government’s emergency legislation to rescue the embattled Rwanda scheme was published. Mr Jenrick has been publicly and privately pushing Rishi Sunak to take more drastic action to tackle legal and illegal migration. Sam Coates: The question for Sunak is is this situation salvageable? (Photo: Jenrick resigned(.

“The question tonight is has Robert Jenrick started something bigger?” says our deputy political editor Sam Coates. “Has Robert Jenrick started something Rishi Sunak perhaps cannot control?” He explains that we knew from the start that there would be an almighty clash over immigration: “But it tonight looks like things are on a course for something quite dramatic inside government.”

“There is no doubt that there are the numbers on the Tory benches to something quite dramatic,” he adds. Could we see letters going in to the 1922 committee or a vote of confidence in the government? And if Rishi Sunak cannot get his illegal migration legislation through parliament, what happens? Sam says: “The question tonight is is this salvageable.”

Courtesy: Sky News