Rishi Sunak to face pressure to shift right after disastrous election results

Suella Braverman says Conservative party will be lucky to have any MPs unless it adopts harder line on immigration and rights

Rishi Sunak will face pressure to adopt hard rightwing policies such as an immigration cap and scrapping European human rights law this week, with Suella Braverman saying he needs to “own and fix” a disastrous set of local election results.

Sunak’s allies were on Sunday insisting he wanted to stick to his current plan and that it was working, as plotters against his leadership accepted they did not have the support to challenge him.