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Mr Raab disclosed he had already met with senior Strasbourg judges to discuss UK concerns over interim injunctions, where a single unnamed judge in a late-night sitting last summer blocked the first deportation flight to Rwanda until the entire policy had been tested in the UK courts. It is currently before the appeal court.

Tory MPs are preparing to lay amendments to the illegal migration bill that would toughen the approach to the ECHR so that the Government could ignore interim injunctions and even wider rulings. However, they have accepted any debate about leaving the ECHR will have to be left for the manifesto.

Last week, Rishi Sunak warned lawyers preparing to challenge his illegal immigration crackdown that he is up for the fight and will win, as he accused the ECHR of being opaque, unfair and unjust. He made clear, however, he had no plans to leave the ECHR.

The illegal migration bill is expected to return to the Commons in two weeks time just before the Easter recess when the Government will face a backbench revolt over the detention of children.

Former ministers Sir Robert Buckland and Caroline Nokes have urged a rethink of the proposals to detain children and women which ministers say is necessary to prevent people smugglers targeting them.

The Liberal Democrats said on Thursday they would be tabling amendments to maintain the ban on the detention of children for immigration purposes.

Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesperson Alistair Carmichael MP said: It is all very well for Robert Buckland and other Conservative MPs to wring their hands on the backbenches about how dreadful this Bill is.

But last night they voted for it so their actions so far do not match their words. Sooner or later they will have to put up or shut up.

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