Is Rishi's Rwanda Bill doomed?

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Rishi Sunak is stuck in a migration quagmire and will be spending the weekend drumming up support from MPs ahead of the vote on his amended Rwanda bill on Tuesday. He will be hoping for a Christmas miracle in the form of support from both One Nation MPs and those on the right of the party. Will Tuesday's vote be a de facto confidence vote in the prime minister?

Cindy Yu speaks to Katy Balls and James Heale.

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0:19.6	Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots
0:21.2	the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.
0:23.9	I'm Cindy U and I'm joined by Katie Bals and James Heel.
0:26.8	So Katie, it looks like the Conservative Party is tearing itself apart again as we go one day closer
0:32.4	to Tuesday's vote on the
0:33.9	Raman bill. What's going on now on Friday?
0:37.1	So the second reading is scheduled for Tuesday.
0:40.4	We're currently at a point where I don't think they're tearing themselves apart completely right now
0:44.4	But there's almost this pause and silence as MPs start to decide what to do so you're getting a little bit of a sense of where they're sitting
0:52.4	I think you know the two groups to be very blunt,
0:55.7	you know, the MPs on the right of the party, loads looking to see about a Brahmin,
0:59.3	Robert Genrick, and thinking, you know, does this bill not go far enough?
1:04.0	Obviously questions about if it does not go far enough,
1:07.8	would you still have a Rwanda scheme to go to?
1:09.8	Number 10 saying there wouldn't be one.
1:11.5	And then the other side the one nation
1:13.2	MPs are saying does it go too far now we've had one MP come out and say from the
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