PCS will consider further legal action against the Tories’ Rwanda scheme for the deportation of asylum-seekers, delegates resolved at the union’s annual conference today.

Delegates voiced anger at being asked to do ministers’ dirty work in defiance of European court rulings, warning that this could put them at risk of breaching the Civil Service code.

The PCS national executive is to campaign against the legislation and in favour of union’s Safe Passage solution to the disastrous rise in small-boat Channel crossings.

It will “explore all avenues of litigation to protect the interests of our members and refugees affected by any new legislation” in respect of the deportation policy.

PCS general secretary Fran Heathcote told the Morning Star that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s immigration policy appears to be “at odds” with the PCS recommendations and that the union would look to “articulate why a strategy we are working on around why a safe passage is workable and actually would be in the interests of a Labour government.”