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.