The Isle of Wight's Bob Seely was among the MPs to have voted in favour of the government's controversial Rwanda bill last night (Wednesday).

Ahead of the vote in the House of Commons, Mr Seely told colleagues "we kill the bill, we can all go and look for new jobs".

He said colleagues who believed a new bill could be written up were living in “la la land”.

The bill, which aims to stop legal challenges against plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, passed by 320 votes to 276 votes.

Only 11 Conservative MPs voted against the government as the third reading was approved - Mr Seely was not one of them.

Before the vote, the Island MP said: “On the WhatsApp group that we were chatting on about this earlier, one of our colleagues from the north east posted the idea that we could have a new bill, that a new bill would be written.

“I’m finding that to be truly living in la la land, because the idea that everybody on this side of the House would agree to a new bill, once we’ve killed this bill, is for the birds. It’s this bill or no bill, it’s this bill or no chance – so I think we have to face the reality.”

On the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), he said: "We are in Government. We should change the Human Rights Act if we do not like it. We should not use it as an excuse for inaction."

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak believes deporting some asylum seekers to Rwanda will deter migrants from wanting to come to the UK in small boats.

Labour has called the bill "unworkable".

It will now go before the House of Lords.