Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots The Spectators Daily Politics podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday

roundup. Speaking to Laura Coonsburg, after resigning on Wednesday, former immigration

minister Robert Genrick was disparaging in his assessment of the government's new Rwanda legislation, claiming it was weak and wouldn't work.

Explaining his resignation, he said that he couldn't be the minister guiding that bill through Parliament.

Genrich implied he had a better understanding of the issue than the Prime Minister

and that a political choice had been made to bring forward a bill which wouldn't do the job.

He suggested that under the proposed legislation

the Rwanda scheme would be bogged down by migrants potential legal claims

and this would not act as an effective deterrent.

Why did you quit?

Well in government if you have profound disagreements with the direction of policy particularly

those that you are personally leading, it's right that you step away.

And on both illegal and illegal migration,

I felt that we were not heading in the right direction.

I couldn't be the minister who was guiding this critical bill through

parliament, recommending it to parliamentarians and to the public if I felt as

I do that it is a weak bill that won't work.

The Prime Minister though said that your resignation was based on what he described as a fundamental

misunderstanding of the situation. Now do you not understand the plans for Rwanda or does the

Prime Minister not understand the plans for Rwanda? Well I've immersed myself in this

issue more than anyone else in government.

In fact, the Prime Minister said just the other day that I was probably the minister who knows

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