Is the Tory right about to kill Rishi's Rwanda bill?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak is in a dark room in Paddington talking about the decisions he made as Chancellor to the covid inquiry.
Meanwhile, various huddles of Tory MPs are meeting to decide whether or not to vote through the key Rwanda bill tomorrow, one backbencher, the ERG leader Mark Francois, has told the government to rip it up and start again. We ask former deputy chair of the party Paul Scully if Rishi could lose the vote.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:14.5 | You know that moment when you change your phone, maybe upgrade your phone, change your handset, |
| 0:20.1 | and you lose all your data. |
| 0:22.9 | It's impossible to have any context. |
| 0:24.9 | Impossible to find any messages. |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.9 | You can't use the same apps anymore. |
| 0:29.7 | All your emails. |
| 0:31.1 | Just disappear. |
| 0:32.0 | Everything. |
| 0:32.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.1 | Gone. |
| 0:33.9 | Well, that is exactly what happened to poor old Rishi Sunak. |
| 0:38.6 | You don't now have access to any of the WhatsApp that you did send during the time of the crisis, do you? |
| 0:45.4 | No, I don't. I've changed my phone multiple times over the past few years, and as that has happened, the messages have not come across. As you said, |
| 0:55.8 | I'm not a prolific user of WhatsApp in the first instance, primarily communication with my |
| 1:01.4 | private office and obviously anything that was of significance through those conversations |
| 1:08.0 | or exchanges will have been recorded officially by my civil... |
| 1:11.6 | I'm now going to try a sound effect. |
| 1:18.6 | That is me scratching my head, because I'm not that tech savvy. |
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