ACTORS and TV personalities have signed an open letter calling on the government to scrap its Rwanda deportation scheme and come up with a fair new plan for refugees.

It comes as Tory infighting deepens ahead of the government’s desperate parliamentary bid to revive its flagship “stop the boats” policy tomorrow. 

Succession star Brian Cox, Match of The Day presenter Gary Lineker, women’s rights campaigner Helen Pankhurst, Hotel Rwanda star Sophie Okonedo and TV chef Big Zuu, the son of a refugee from Sierra Leone, joined forces to brand Britain’s refugee system “ever-more uncaring, chaotic and costly.”

In the letter, co-ordinated by campaign coalition Together With Refugees, they said: “Tens of thousands of people are stuck in limbo waiting for their refugee protection to be processed, separated from their families and barred from working.

“These policies aren’t working for refugees and they aren’t working for local communities.

“That’s why we have come together to say we’ve had enough. Enough of the division. Enough of the short-term thinking. Enough of the wasted human potential. And it’s why we now call for something better.”

Signatories called “on you, our political leaders of all parties, to commit to a fair new plan for refugees” which includes upholding Britain’s commitment under international law to the right to claim asylum and scrapping the scheme that was ruled illegal by the Supreme Court last month.

The letter, which marked the launch yesterday of the coalition’s Fair Begins Here campaign, comes as the government hopes to rush emergency legislation — the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum & Immigration) Bill — through Parliament tomorrow declaring Rwanda a safe destination for asylum-seekers.

Meanwhile Tories were arguing that the legislation would not not stand up to scrutiny.

Rightwinger Sir Bill Cash said his European Research Group’s own legal advice found the law was not fit for purpose and former immigration minister Robert Jenrick, in his first interview since quitting, told the BBC the draft law would be bogged down by legal challenges and that he was among a group of like-minded Conservative MPs hoping to persuade ministers “that there is a better way” to design the new law.