ANTI-RACIST groups will hold an emergency protest outside Parliament as the widely condemned Illegal Migration Bill returns to the Commons next week.

Stand Up to Racism and Care4Calais said the rally at 6pm on Monday will be “the last opportunity to voice opposition” to the government plans to tackle the small boats crisis.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick today ruled out further compromises to the Bill after peers inflicted a string of fresh defeats on the government this week — calling for limits to the detention of children, modern slavery protections and the provision of safe and legal routes for refugees to Britain.

It means the continuation of the parliamentary tussle over the Bill, known as ping-pong, where the legislation is batted between the Lords and Commons, until agreement is reached.

MPs are set to debate the Bill on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week before Parliament’s summer recess begins on Thursday.

Urging them to join the rally, Stand up to Racism co-convener Sabby Dhalu said: “Monday’s protest is likely to be the last opportunity to voice opposition to the so-called Illegal Migration Bill.

“The actual Bill is illegal in that it flies in the face of international laws and effectively bans the right to seek asylum in the UK. It represents a fundamental breach of basic human rights. 

“The whole ‘stop the boats’ campaign is a racist campaign designed to distract from and scapegoat for the government’s deliberate policy of making people worse off so a minority can make billions of pounds of profit.”

Author and poet Michael Rosen added: “This is not the Illegal Immigration Bill. It’s the Scapegoating Bill.

“A government in trouble is trying the old trick of hoping to shore up support by blaming migrants for its own shortcomings.”