Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.

I'm Hannah White.

Well, Rishi Sunak has got his Rwanda bill through the Commons, but at what cost to his authority?

The Prime Minister lost a couple of allies along the way, most prominent amongst them being the outspoken Lee Anderson, and endured

a difficult 48 hours of brinkmanship. So was it worth it? What happens next? And will this legislation

actually deliver the Prime Minister's aim of stopping the boats? We'll take a look. For Prime

ministers seeking to demonstrate power and

authority, the international stage is often the safest place to be. And last week, for the first time

in his premiership, Rishitunak authorized military action. Parliament did not get a say. We'll look at the

decision to join airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen and the UK's involvement in a Middle East crisis that shows no signs of easing.

And then we'll end by turning our attention across the Atlantic and the race to become the next US president and the campaign of a certain Donald Trump.

Joining me throughout are two IFG colleagues who are keen followers of political developments across the globe as well as here in the UK.

And that's Alice Lilly and Joel Rutter. Hi both.

Hi, Hannah. Hi, Hannah.

And I'm delighted that we are joined again by Peter Ricketts, Lord Ricketts,

the UK's first national security advisor from 2010 to 2012, former ambassador and an ex-permanent secretary at the Foreign Office.

Thank you for joining us, Peter.

Hello, Hannah. So let's get started with the latest developments in Westminster,

where the big story of the week was the Prime Minister's attempt to get his Rwanda bill through the Commons.

Jill, he did it in the end. Was he always going to?

I think at the end of the day, the problem for the right-wing conservatives was nobody else was going

to vote for their amendments and we saw that when we had that rebellion they got a few dupy

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