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Rishi Sunak has been dealt a fresh blow to his authority after a raft of Tory rebels voted for amendments to his flagship Rwanda policy.

A total of 60 Tories voted in favour of changes proposed by Conservative veteran Sir Bill Cash.

However, the amendment, seeking to ensure UK and international law cannot be used to block a person being removed to Rwanda, was rejected by a majority of 461.

MPs also voted on an amendment from former immigration Robert Jenrick, which sought to make it more difficult for individuals to make claims against their deportation.

But the Commons again rejected it by 525 votes to 61 votes, among them 59 Tories – including tellers.

The rebellion gives an indication of the scale of unease within the Conservative Party during an election year.

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Below is a full list of the Conservatives who voted for Sir Bill’s amendment:

Adam Afriyie – Windsor
Lee Anderson – Ashfield
Sarah Atherton – Wrexham
Sir Jake Berry – Rossendale and Darwen
Bob Blackman – Harrow East
Ben Bradley – Mansfield
Suella Braverman – Fareham
Jack Brereton – Stoke-on-Trent South
Paul Bristow – Peterborough
Sir Bill Cash – Stone
Miriam Cates – Penistone and Stocksbridge
Rehman Chishti – Gillingham and Rainham
Sir Christopher Chope – Christchurch
Sir Simon Clarke – Middlesborough South and East Cleveland
Brendan Clarke-Smith – Bassetlaw
Philip Davies – Shipley
Sarah Dines – Derbyshire Dales
Richard Drax – South Dorset
Sir James Duddridge – Rochford and Southend East
Sir Iain Duncan Smith – Chingford and Woodford Green
Michael Fabricant – Lichfield
Nick Fletcher – Don Valley
Kevin Foster – Torbay
Mark Francois – Rayleigh and Wickford
Chris Green – Bolton West
James Grundy – Leigh
Jonathan Gullis – Stoke-on-Trent North
Sir John Hayes – South Holland and the Deepings
Darren Henry – Broxtowe
Philip Hollobone – Kettering
Adam Holloway – Gravesham
Eddie Hughes – Walsall North
Tom Hunt – Ipswich
Robert Jenrick – Newark
Caroline Johnson – Sleaford and North Hykeham
David Jones – Clwyd West
Danny Kruger – Devizes
Andrew Lewer – Northampton South
Marco Longhi – Dudley North
Jonathan Lord – Woking
Craig Mackinlay – South Thanet
Karl McCartney – Lincoln
Robin Millar – Aberconwy
Anne Marie Morris – Newton Abbot
Jill Mortimer – Hartlepool
Wendy Morton – Aldridge-Brownhills
Lia Nici – Great Grimsby
Neil O’Brien – Harborough
Dr Matthew Offord – Hendon
Tom Randall – Gedling
John Redwood – Wokingham
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg – North East Somerset
Laurence Robertson – Tewksbury
Gary Sambrook – Birmingham, Northfield
Greg Smith – Buckingham
Henry Smith – Crawley
Jane Stevenson – Wolverhampton North East
Sir Desmond Swayne – New Forest West
Liz Truss – South West Norfolk
Sir Bill Wiggin – North Herefordshire

Below is a full list of the Conservatives who voted for Mr Jenrick’s amendment:

Adam Afriyie – Windsor
Lee Anderson – Ashfield
Sarah Atherton – Wrexham
Sir Jake Berry – Rossendale and Darwen
Bob Blackman – Harrow East
Ben Bradley – Mansfield
Suella Braverman – Fareham
Jack Brereton – Stoke-on-Trent South
Paul Bristow – Peterborough
Sir Bill Cash – Stone
Miriam Cates – Penistone and Stocksbridge
Sir Christopher Chope – Christchurch
Sir Simon Clarke – Middlesborough South and East Cleveland
Brendan Clarke-Smith – Bassetlaw
Philip Davies – Shipley
Sarah Dines – Derbyshire Dales
Richard Drax – South Dorset
Sir James Duddridge – Rochford and Southend East
Sir Iain Duncan Smith – Chingford and Woodford Green
Michael Fabricant – Lichfield
Nick Fletcher – Don Valley
Mark Francois – Rayleigh and Wickford
Chris Green – Bolton West
James Grundy – Leigh
Jonathan Gullis – Stoke-on-Trent North
Sir John Hayes – South Holland and the Deepings
Darren Henry – Broxtowe
Philip Hollobone – Kettering
Adam Holloway – Gravesham
Eddie Hughes – Walsall North
Tom Hunt – Ipswich
Robert Jenrick – Newark
Caroline Johnson – Sleaford and North Hykeham
David Jones – Clwyd West
Danny Kruger – Devizes
Sir Edward Leigh – Gainsborough
Andrew Lewer – Northampton South
Marco Longhi – Dudley North
Craig Mackinlay – South Thanet
Karl McCartney – Lincoln
Robin Millar – Aberconwy
Nigel Mills – Amber Valley
Anne Marie Morris – Newton Abbot
Jill Mortimer – Hartlepool
Lia Nici – Great Grimsby
Neil O’Brien – Harborough
Dr Matthew Offord – Hendon
Tom Randall – Gedling
Sir John Redwood – Wokingham
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg – North East Somerset
Laurence Robertson – Tewksbury
Gary Sambrook – Birmingham, Northfield
Greg Smith – Buckingham
Henry Smith – Crawley
Jane Stevenson – Wolverhampton North East
Sir Desmond Swayne – New Forest West
Liz Truss – South West Norfolk
Sir Bill Wiggin – North Herefordshire

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Another hint that tax rises are coming in this autumn’s budget has been given by a senior minister.

Speaking to Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander was asked if Sir Keir Starmer and the rest of the cabinet had discussed hiking taxes in the wake of the government’s failed welfare reforms, which were shot down by their own MPs.

Trevor Phillips asked specifically if tax rises were discussed among the cabinet last week – including on an away day on Friday.

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Tax increases were not discussed “directly”, Ms Alexander said, but ministers were “cognisant” of the challenges facing them.

Asked what this means, Ms Alexander added: “I think your viewers would be surprised if we didn’t recognise that at the budget, the chancellor will need to look at the OBR forecast that is given to her and will make decisions in line with the fiscal rules that she has set out.

“We made a commitment in our manifesto not to be putting up taxes on people on modest incomes, working people. We have stuck to that.”

Ms Alexander said she wouldn’t comment directly on taxes and the budget at this point, adding: “So, the chancellor will set her budget. I’m not going to sit in a TV studio today and speculate on what the contents of that budget might be.

“When it comes to taxation, fairness is going to be our guiding principle.”

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Afterwards, shadow home secretary Chris Philp told Phillips: “That sounds to me like a barely disguised reference to tax rises coming in the autumn.”

He then went on to repeat the Conservative attack lines that Labour are “crashing the economy”.

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Mr Philp then attacked the prime minister as “weak” for being unable to get his welfare reforms through the Commons.

Discussions about potential tax rises have come to the fore after the government had to gut its welfare reforms.

Sir Keir had wanted to change Personal Independence Payments (PIP), but a large Labour rebellion forced him to axe the changes.

With the savings from these proposed changes – around £5bn – already worked into the government’s sums, they will now need to find the money somewhere else.

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