Rishi Sunak wins Rwanda vote. What happens now?
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The vote on the bill, which will designate Rwanda as a safe country for asylum seekers, came after intense debate in the Commons which highlighted the deep fractures within the Conservative Party.
Today on the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks with our chief political correspondent, Jon Craig, about what this means for the UK’s migration policy, and with the deputy editor of ConservativeHome, Henry Hill, about whether Rishi Sunak will be able to unite the warring Tory factions.
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Interviews Producer: Melissa Tutesigensi
Promotion producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:14.2 | Daily where we are going to be reflecting on that which you just heard the moment where |
| 1:18.0 | Rishi Sunak presumably breathed an almighty sigh of relief his Rwanda bill will now proceed there |
| 1:25.0 | had been concerns that those on the right of the party would vote it down |
| 1:28.5 | in concert with, of course, the opposition. That did not happen. The reason, well, we'll explore that |
| 1:33.8 | in just a second. A little later, I will be speaking to Henry Hill, deputy editor of the Conservative |
| 1:39.5 | Home website. Before all that, we've dragged him away from patrolling the corridors of power, |
| 1:44.3 | our chief political correspondent, John Craig. John, you're right? Good to see you. |
| 1:47.9 | Yeah, it was exciting, wasn't it? |
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