Have the Tories stopped caring about the rule of law?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
After a couple of dramatic resignations last night from Tory rebels, the government appears fairly confident it CAN get it's Rwanda bill through the commons.
But at what cost?
Rishi has had to fight both flanks of his party. And those on his right are increasingly sounding like they're prepared to sack off the ol' rule of law to stop judges getting in the way of Rwanda flights taking off.
Is the government prepared to follow them? And what kind of Conservatism would that be?
Later, we look at Iran flexing its muscles in the region - why is it attacking Syria, Iraq and Pakistan?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | This is the government that spent £400 million of taxpayers' money on a Rwanda scheme, yet can't deport a single person. |
| 0:19.8 | And this is the government that waged a week-long |
| 0:22.7 | war on the Greek Prime Minister for reasons known only to themselves. And suddenly you're reminded |
| 0:28.2 | that, of course, this farce of a government could lose the people it was planning to remove. |
| 0:35.4 | But he didn't answer the question. |
| 0:37.8 | So I'll ask him again, |
| 0:39.1 | where are the 4,250 people |
| 0:42.9 | that the government has lost? |
| 0:45.1 | Where are they? |
| 0:46.5 | That was Kirstama in the Commons, |
| 0:49.1 | asking Rishi Sunak about his Rwanda plan |
| 0:52.2 | and most specifically about migrants who had literally gone missing, |
| 0:57.7 | a question that Rishi Sunak faced four times and couldn't answer. |
| 1:02.8 | And since we sat and recorded 24 hours ago, three others have gone missing, two Conservative |
| 1:08.1 | Party vice chairman and one junior member of the Business Department |
| 1:12.7 | because they don't like Rishi Sunak's policy either on Rwanda. |
| 1:18.3 | It's probably going to get through, but at a hefty cost of Rishy Sunak's authority and credibility. |
| 1:27.3 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:32.2 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:35.1 | It's John. |
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