Peers and MPs pledge to block Sunak’s Rwanda plan as Braverman labels it ‘magical thinking’

Fast-track bill, after supreme court ruling barring deportation flights, would be wildly unpopular legislation' says Tory peer

Rishi Sunak's target of flying out asylum seekers to Rwanda by next spring is in doubt, with opposition parties and some Conservative peers having pledged to try to block emergency legislation intended to rescue the plan.

In another blow to the prime minister, Suella Braverman, the home secretary he sacked on Monday, dismissed his ideas as magical thinking", setting out her own rival plan to make sure removals begin swiftly.