Tories split over sites for refugee housing and deadline for stopping small boats

Rebels say crossings should be stopped by end of 2023 while ministers are unhappy about camps in their constituencies

The government has pledged to move asylum seekers into disused military bases with the minimum living conditions allowed under international law, but has come under pressure from ministers whose constituencies would host the camps.

Rebel Conservative backbenchers warned that they expected Rishi Sunak's pledge to stop small boat crossings to be fulfilled by the end of the year, a timetable rejected by Downing Street and one that could potentially lead to an internal split.