Rwanda and COVID: Rishi Sunak's toughest week yet
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
While at the inquiry, some of Rishi Sunak’s Tory colleagues have called on the PM to scrap his Rwanda bill, as it goes to the Commons tomorrow.
On the Sky News Daily, Jonathan Samuels hosts our political editor Beth Rigby, who discusses the difficulties Sunak faces within his party over Rwanda. Plus, our political correspondent Tamara Cohen reports on the PM’s accounts at the COVID inquiry.
Producer: Alex Edden
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:56.7 | Legacy to find out how. Hello, this is Jonathan Samuels in for Neil Patterson on the Sky News Daily. Now |
| 1:05.7 | today we are talking about the Prime Minister Rishi Sun, and asking whether or not he is having the toughest |
| 1:12.0 | week of his premiership so far. One of the newspapers today had the headline Rishi on the rack. |
| 1:19.5 | Well, he has been giving evidence to the COVID inquiry defending his past record as Chancellor, |
| 1:25.0 | but he's also looking to the future, isn't he, as he defends his |
| 1:27.8 | plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda. There is a crunch vote in the Commons tomorrow, |
| 1:34.4 | and at this stage it really is uncertain which way it's going to go. So I'm going to be talking |
| 1:40.5 | to Sky's political editor, Beth Rigby, who's been following the different |
| 1:44.4 | conservative factions who are unhappy with the bill. But first here's Tamara Cohen, who has spent |
| 1:50.2 | the day at the COVID inquiry. Great to see you tomorrow. Why don't we start by getting an overall |
| 1:55.0 | impression? How do you think the Prime Minister did? There were no fireworks. He was quite |
| 2:00.6 | calm, quite controlled. He'd obviously |
| 2:04.0 | done a lot of prep, a lot of revision over the weekend, because you saw him there, sometimes |
| 2:08.7 | saying, well, let me take you back to paragraph 237 of my statement. And actually on that day, |
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