How are Tories split on small boats?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:18.7 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Cindy you and I'm joined by James Hill and Katie Boss. |
| 0:25.8 | So today the government may be facing a rebellion on its immigration bill. |
| 0:30.0 | Katie talk us through what's going on. |
| 0:32.5 | So at the stage of when it comes to the legal immigration bill where amendments are being |
| 0:36.9 | added and I think it's about to say a lot of amendments are being put forward. |
| 0:41.2 | Obviously we get to see which ones are called by the speaker but I think it is highlighting |
| 0:47.1 | that while the small boats bill, which is often you're trying to make it so that if you arrive |
| 0:53.0 | here legally you cannot claim asylum, has I think had a unifying effect generally and certainly |
| 0:59.6 | initially on the Tory party, you know, you look at the second reading, sailed through. |
| 1:04.0 | But now at the point we are seeing the splits from the Tory party on the issue. |
| 1:06.8 | So Rishisuna has been pulled in various directions by different parts of his party. |
| 1:11.6 | I think in terms of just basic math, the one that is the most problematic comes from the |
| 1:16.2 | moderate wing of the party. So this is Tim Loudoun back by MPs calling for |
| 1:22.8 | there to be a safe and legal route for people to come here now. |
| 1:27.0 | At present what Minister is proposing is oh we might let some asylum seekers come here one day |
| 1:32.0 | but we'll get back to you on the details and we'll only do so when we grip the current problem. |
| 1:37.1 | Whereas this is trying to make it so actually no look at your duties working with the UN to |
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