Is Rwanda about to bring Rishi Sunak down?
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🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
An impromptu Prime Minister's press conference this morning raised more questions than it answered.
Rishi Sunak was responding to the resignation of Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick last night - which blindsided the government - and left the PM defending his Rwanda policy and promising he would disapply human rights law to get it through. Today - a stark message for those in the party trying to cause trouble - from Tory backbencher and 1922 committee stalwart Sir Charles Walker - who joins us on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | When you ask a politician a question, you expect a certain amount of obfuscation, sort of skating round the issue of it. |
| 0:20.8 | Weirdly, when you get a straight answer, |
| 0:23.6 | it can sometimes leave you absolutely lost for words. This was Laura Farris, home office |
| 0:30.6 | minister on the Andrew Marshall on LBC. Laura Farris, very good of you to be there, very good |
| 0:35.0 | to see you. Straightforward question, I am told that Robert Jenrick has resigned. Has he? |
| 0:40.3 | I understand that he has. |
| 0:42.3 | He has resigned. Do you know why has he given any explanation to you or to other ministers about why he has gone? |
| 0:49.3 | I don't. In all honesty, Andrew. I just came from the chamber and found out after I'd connected |
| 0:55.8 | to your show. Well, thank you very much for being so straight and candid with me. |
| 1:01.8 | Yeah, straight and candid. I mean, straight and candid is, it's an absolute shit show and we haven't got |
| 1:07.0 | a clue what's going on. A bombshell. A bombshell. And, you know, Cleverly is there on the front bench announcing the details of the government's |
| 1:14.9 | new second reading on Rwanda. |
| 1:16.6 | And oops, the immigration minister seems to have gone missing. |
| 1:19.9 | The thing that he'd worked on, he had resigned over. |
| 1:22.7 | And it is devastatingly destabilising for Rishi Sunak's government. |
| 1:27.6 | But keep up, because all that was, what, nearly 24 hours ago. |
| 1:32.1 | And in that time, we've had Rishi Sunak taken to the stage a formal press conference |
| 1:37.6 | to try and tell us that everything's fine. |
| 1:40.9 | Nothing to panic about. |
| 1:42.8 | Welcome to the news agents. The to panic about. Welcome to the newsagents. |
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