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Coffee House Shots

Is Rishi's Rwanda plan dead?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It never rains but it pours for Rishi Sunak, as the Court of Appeal has today ruled against his Rwanda plan, raising concerns about the safety of asylum seekers. It now looks as though Rishi could be set to fail in all five of his pledges. Is the prime minister heading for embarrassment? 

Katy Balls speaks to Fraser Nelson and James Heale. 

Produced by Cindy Yu and Oscar Edmondson. 

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0:00.0

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0:13.2

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0:19.5

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,

0:21.2

the spectator's daily politics podcast.

0:23.3

I'm Katie Pauls and I'm drawing both Fraser Nelson and James Hill.

0:27.1

It never rains but it pulls for Rishi Sunak as the court of appeal has come back today

0:32.0

and ruled against a Rwanda asylum plan.

0:34.9

The court has found that it is unlawful,

0:37.6

ultimately raising concerns about the safety of asylum seekers

0:40.6

and where they could then be deported.

0:42.8

And this comes after a high court judgment which found it was lawful.

0:47.7

Now Rishi Sunak says he will take this to the Supreme Court.

0:51.2

Fraser, what's your reaction?

0:53.2

This is pretty significant I think. It comes the week after the inflation figures

0:58.0

and when does one figures come out?

1:00.0

My understanding is that Rishi Sunak decided he was probably going to miss his inflation target.

1:04.8

This is one of his five pledges to have inflation over the course of the year.

1:08.4

When he made that pledge, inflation was set to be 3% at the end of the year.

1:12.8

He needed it to be 5.5 now it looks like it's going to be higher.

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