Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resign over Rwanda bill – as it happened

Jane Stevenson joins Conservative party's deputy chairs in resigning on a bruising night for Rishi Sunak

More than 60 Tory MPs have signed at least one of the various rebel amendments to the Rwanda bill tabled by hardliners. But very few of them have said publicly that, if the amendments are not passed, they will definitely vote against the bill at third reading. Suella Braverman and Miriam Cates are among the diehards in this category. But Simon Clarke, in his ConservativeHome, only says, that, if the bill is not changed, he will not vote for the bill at third reading, implying he would abstain.

In an interview with Sky News, Robert Jenrick, the former immigration minister who has tabled the rebel amendments attracting most support, said he was prepared" to vote against the bill at third reading. He said:

I am prepared to vote against the bill ... because this bill doesn't work, and I do believe that a better bill is possible.

So the government has a choice. It can either accept my amendments ... or it can bring back a new and improved bill, and it could do that within a matter of days because we know the shape of that bill.