Tory rebels offered concessions on asylum legislation

Ministers axe plan obliging Braverman to send thousands of asylum seekers who arrive this summer to Rwanda

Ministers have been forced to offer rebel Conservative MPs concessions on key asylum legislation amid growing concern that it would fail to pass through the Commons.

The government has dropped nearly all of the retrospective applications of the illegal migration bill's measures - a move that will mean Suella Braverman will no longer be obliged to deport thousands of asylum seekers who arrive in the UK this summer to a third country such as Rwanda.