![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jonathan-gullis-miriam-cates-marco-865755077.jpg\")
\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jonathan-gullis-miriam-cates-danny-865753318.jpg\")
\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/prime-minister-rishi-sunak-speaks-865661155.jpg\")
<\/p>\nRISHI Sunak held crunch talks with Tory rebels this morning ahead of a make-or-break vote on his Rwanda deal.<\/p>\n
The PM urged right wing MPs to back his plan in the Commons tonight or risk meltdown at the heart of government.<\/p>\n
\n
\n<\/p>\n
Over breakfast in No10 Mr Sunak told hardliners that his emergency Rwanda Bill WILL get flights off the tarmac.<\/p>\n
And in his first major intervention since resigning as Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace urged colleagues to back to the Bill rather than "wreck" the government. <\/p>\n
The plan is on a knife-edge after right-wing Tories gave it the thumbs down yesterday.<\/p>\n
A \u201cStar Chamber\u201d of lawyers acting for hardline MPs said the legislation was a \u201cpartial and incomplete solution\u201d to stopping\u00a0future\u00a0removals being thwarted in the\u00a0courts.<\/p>\n
This morning new Illegal migration minister\u00a0Michael Tomlinson\u00a0insisted he was "very much in listening mode" as he refused to call critics troublemakers.<\/p>\n He told Sky News: "They're not pesky rebels. They are respected colleagues who I have worked with.<\/p>\n "I knew the desire of colleagues right across the breadth of our broad church in the parliamentary party. What do they want? They want this Bill to work.<\/p>\n "The way I'm going to help to persuade them to support the Bill and to support us as we pass the Bill through Parliament is to help show that the Bill is actually going to work, because that's what we all want."<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Mr Tomlinson added: We all want this legislation to work. And that is what I'm determined to do."<\/p>\n Last night Downing Street hit back at critics by publishing their legal advice which makes clear breaking international\u00a0law\u00a0would be "alien to the UK's constitutional tradition of liberty and justice".<\/p>\n And writing in The Telegraph, Mr Wallace said: "Before anyone in my party thinks the solution to this\u2026 is to wreck the government, perhaps we should calmly state that we are heading in the right direction and making progress. <\/p>\n "Yes, we lost before the courts, but just like any government before us, we have addressed the issues and I am confident that, as long as Labour doesn\u2019t use the unelected House of Lords to derail the scheme, there is a good chance the return programme will progress."<\/p>\n Five Conservative caucuses on the right of the party demanded the PM\u00a0hardens up the Bill\u00a0ahead of the first Commons showdown tonight.<\/p>\n Downing Street has so far been adamant any toughening\u00a0would see Rwanda pull out\u00a0of the flagship removal scheme and spell curtains for the plan.<\/p>\n The Star Chamber gave its verdict at a meeting of like minded Tory factions this afternoon: the European Research Group, the Common Sense Group,\u00a0the New Conservatives, the Northern Research Group and the Conservative Growth Group.<\/p>\n Dubbed the \u201cFive Families\u201d, they have enough members to kill Mr Sunak\u2019s Rwanda Bill in the Commons tonight when the legislation has its \u201csecond reading\u201d.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/TM-comp-Rishi-1.jpg\")
<\/picture>REBELS RISING<\/span><\/p>\nTory MPs warn Rishi Sunak they DO have numbers to defeat his Rwanda Bill <\/h3>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-sunak-pressure-following-resignation-864706757.jpg\")
<\/picture>RISH UPON A STAR <\/span><\/p>\nRishi fights to save Rwanda plan as Tories brand it 'incomplete solution'<\/h3>\n
Most read in Politics<\/h2>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/crop-25020093.jpg\")
<\/picture>MIGRANT COSTS <\/span><\/p>\nAnnual cost of housing small boat migrants to ‘hit \u00a311bn’ if crossings go on<\/h3>\n
<\/picture>REBELS RISING<\/span><\/p>\nTory MPs warn Rishi Sunak they DO have numbers to defeat his Rwanda Bill<\/h3>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/bbbdb60f-cc73-4372-af50-6373a4f8f96b.jpg\")
<\/picture>\u2018HE\u2019S FLOUNDERING\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\nFarage savages Rwanda plan as a \u2018cop out\u2019 & urges Tories to vote it down<\/h3>\n
<\/picture>RISH UPON A STAR <\/span><\/p>\nRishi fights to save Rwanda plan as Tories brand it ‘incomplete solution’<\/h3>\n
Read more on The Sun<\/h2>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/crop-25020124.jpg\")
<\/picture>![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/new-homeless-comp-jmac.jpg\")
<\/picture>