Rishi Sunak in crucial last-minute talks with Tory MPs as he meets with powerful backbenchers who could sink his premiership

He is meeting with MPs from the New Conservatives Group this morning over breakfast.

The group has teamed up with four other rebel groups in opposition to the Government’s new Rwanda legislation: the European Research Group, the Northern Research Group, the Conservative Growth Group and the Common Sense Group.

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Rebels on the right of the party have said they have the numbers to defeat the Government when it votes on the legislation this evening – something that could call Sunak’s leadership into question.

Yesterday, lawyers acting on behalf of the five right-wing factions published a damning verdict on Sunak’s new Bill.

They warned that the Bill provides a “partial and incomplete solution to the problem of legal challenges”, saying it does not “go far enough to deliver the policy as intended”.

The document, which lists 13 “limitations” of the legislation, warns the Bill “contains no restrictions on the bringing of legal challenges against removal to Rwanda based on grounds other than that Rwanda is not a safe country”.

It also claims there is “nothing in the Bill which would prevent the UK courts from following or being influenced by a final ruling of the Strasbourg Court on a case where the Bill does not expressly preclude them from doing so”.

Sunak has been warned that, once in Rwanda, an asylum seeker “will be able to appeal any previous decisions based on new evidence”.

However, the group has yet to confirm how it will advise its MPs to vote.

There is a chance it could choose to vote for the bill today, in order to make amendments at its next stage.

But it is understood that the ERG-led coalition of Tory factions wants Sunak to toughen up the Bill before it faces a vote this evening.