How has Sunak got himself into this mess over Rwanda?
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak faces a crucial vote tonight in the Commons over his new Rwanda bill. It's not proving to be an easy week with his party split over whether the bill goes too far or indeed that it does not go far enough.
So just how did the Prime Minister get himself into a position where his whips are scrambling at the last minute to get this vote passed?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Tuesday is high noon for Rishi Sunak, the single most perilous day of his premiership. |
| 0:18.1 | By the time you're listening to this, the results of the vote on the second |
| 0:21.1 | reading of his emergency Rwanda legislation may be in, then maybe not, the vote may have been |
| 0:25.7 | deferred. Either way, there is no good outcome for Sunag. He has marched his troops up to the |
| 0:31.5 | top of the hill. It has been clear, many of them, had no wish to go with him. Today is one of those |
| 0:37.3 | days in Westminster where |
| 0:38.3 | developments are second by second, where every tweet is dangerous, where events turn on a moment. |
| 0:43.8 | On this show, we're going to take a step back a little bit, take a breath, expand our view, |
| 0:49.0 | and ask a question, how could it have been that Rishi Sunak could have got himself into this mess, |
| 0:55.0 | that his premiership, at the very least, his authority, could hang by a thread on the basis of a policy, |
| 1:01.5 | which probably won't even work? |
| 1:03.8 | It's Lewis here. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:09.2 | The Newsagents |
| 1:10.5 | From Global's newsroom at 1 o'clock, an asylum seeker has suddenly died on board the Bibby-Stockholm barge in Dorset. |
| 1:21.0 | Inevitably, all eyes today have been, will be, on Westminster's shadowy corridors. |
| 1:25.6 | But perhaps they should have been on the Isle of Portland, |
| 1:28.3 | on that narrow stretch of water off the Dorset coast. |
| 1:31.1 | The Bibby Stockholm Barge, another favourite of the government spin doctors, |
| 1:34.9 | plastered so often on the front pages, |
| 1:37.2 | the home of 500 asylum seekers, |
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