Ministers face a Conservative rebellion on Tuesday led by former leaders Theresa May and Sir Iain Duncan Smith unless they make further concessions over their plans to deport modern slavery victims.
The two leaders are understood to be backing a Lords amendment to the Illegal Migration Bill that protects victims trafficked in the UK from deportation.
Ministers are proposing to reverse the amendment, put forward by Tory peer Lord Randall in the upper house, when the Bill is debated by MPs from lunchtime on Tuesday.
The amendment by Lord Randall, vice chairman of the human trafficking foundation, mirrors a similar proposal by Mrs May and Sir Iain to “exempt people who have been unlawfully exploited in the UK” from the plans to detain and swiftly deport migrants from the UK. Talks are understood to be continuing with Tories concerned about the proposals.
Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, and Victoria Prentis, the Attorney General, were said to be meeting MPs who had “concerns” about the Bill. But one MP said: “I don’t think we will be able to support the Government if it moves to strike out Lord Randall’s amendment.
“Mrs May was the architect of the modern slavery act when home secretary.”
‘Shutting the door on victims’
During the second reading of the Bill, she warned that the plans to refuse modern slavery claims by those who arrived illegally would be “shutting the door on victims while being trafficked into slavery in the UK”.
She said ministers had failed to provide evidence to justify its claims that small boat migrants were abusing the Modern Slavery Act.
It is one of three rebellions anticipated by backbench MPs today as the Government seeks to overturn 15 of the 20 defeats it suffered on amendments in the Lords.
It has offered five concessions by setting an eight-day time limit on detention for unaccompanied child migrants entering the UK illegally, a 28-day limit if there is a dispute over their age and a 72-hour limit for pregnant women.
It has also ditched plans to make the Bill’s powers to detain and deport migrants take effect retrospectively from March 7.
However, Tory MPs are still not satisfied with the assurances on the detention of child migrants and are expected to rebel unless there are further concessions.
MPs are also gearing up to press for a tighter timetable to introduce safe and legal routes for refugees to come to the UK, so that they would be set up within two months of the Bill being enacted.
It is thought unlikely any of the rebellions will see the Government defeated. However, they will encourage the Lords to push back and potentially reintroduce their amendments when the Bill returns to the upper house, creating a ping-pong battle in an effort to secure more concessions from ministers.
Mrs May has voted against the Government once before over Boris Johnson’s decision to abandon its commitment to spending 0.7 per cent of national income on foreign aid.
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