Ministers expected to toughen illegal migration bill to placate Tory rebels

Amendments could remove safeguards as Home Office minister says government is ‘in listening mode’

Ministers appear set to at least partly give way to Conservative rebels over removing safeguards from the illegal migration bill after a Home Office minister said the government was “in listening mode”.

Up to 60 Tory backbenchers are believed to be sympathetic to a series of amendments to the bill, which returns to the Commons on Monday, which would prevent judicial oversight that could stop refugees and asylum seekers from being deported.