Rishi Sunak gives a briefing from Downing Street today

Rishi Sunak will give a briefing on Monday and will use the press conference to outline “robust” plans to get flights carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda in the air. Deputy Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that the Prime Minister will provide details of the “operational plan”.

Mr Mitchell said the Government’s Illegal Migration Operations Committee will meet at Number 10 on Monday morning. “The Prime Minister will then hold a press conference to set out the operational plan, but I can assure you that the operational plans are robust, sensible and should work,” he said.

Mr Sunak said the Rwanda Security (Asylum and Immigration) Bill sends a “clear message” that illegal migrants will not be able to remain in Britain. Speaking to the government’s illegal migration operations committee in Downing Street on Monday morning, the Prime Minister said there should be “no further delay”.

Mr Sunak said Rwanda is a “safe country”, adding that his “landmark legislation” is the result of “months and months of hard work and planning”. He added: “This bill sends a clear message; if you come here illegally, you can’t stay.”

Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, Defense Secretary Grant Shapps and Home Secretary James Cleverly also attended the meeting. Deputy Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell said colleagues’ discussions about judicial arrangements for sending asylum seekers to Rwanda are “patronising” and sometimes “border on racism”.

Speaking to a House of Lords amendment to the Rwanda Bill, which proposes independent oversight of the country’s security, separate from its own judiciary, Mr Mitchell told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “ I have listened to what has been said about the independence of the judiciary, the judicial arrangements imposed against Rwanda.

“The Rwandan judge, Judge Rugege, is an enormously distinguished and respected international lawyer – he is even an honorary fellow of law at an Oxford university.

“Some of the discussions that have been had in the Lords about the legal arrangements, legal arrangements within Rwanda, have been patronizing and bordering on racism in my opinion, so we think that it is also not necessary to have that amendment and that the necessary structures are in place to ensure that the scheme works well and fairly.”

Mr Mitchell added that the legislation is “being stymied” by Labor colleagues who refuse to “accept the will of the elected House of Commons”.