Sunak grapples with ruling on flagship asylum plan
FT News Briefing
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🗓️ 16 November 2023
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Summary
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is attempting to save a plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda; an EU proposal will see Denmark enforcing the price cap on Russian oil by checking ships in the Baltic Sea; Plus, EY names a new CEO.
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Sunak vows emergency legislation as Supreme Court rules against Rwanda policy
EY picks Janet Truncale as first woman to lead Big Four firm
Denmark could block Russian oil tankers from reaching markets
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Thursday, November 16th, and this is your |
| 0:06.1 | FT news briefing. Rishi Sunec vows to change the law to save his flagship immigration policy. |
| 0:14.0 | EY has a new chief executive and Denmark could begin halting Russian oil shipments. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Josh Gabor Dwyer in for Filipino, and this is the news you need to start your day. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has signaled he'll press ahead with his government's flagship immigration policy, even after the country's |
| 0:45.0 | Supreme Court ruled it was illegal. |
| 0:47.8 | In a ruling on Wednesday, the court said undocumented asylum seekers sent to Rwanda would be |
| 0:52.4 | at real risk of being sent back to the places they'd fled from. |
| 0:56.0 | Sunak now says he'll introduce emergency legislation to confirm that the African state is a safe country for processing asylum applications. |
| 1:05.0 | It's all ahead of a UK election set to take place next year. |
| 1:09.0 | Here to speak with me now is the FT's Whitehall editor Lucy Fisher. |
| 1:12.8 | Hey Lucy. |
| 1:13.8 | Hi Josh. |
| 1:14.8 | So we had a ruling from the Supreme Court on this Rwanda policy. |
| 1:18.3 | What are the implications for the government? |
| 1:20.1 | So it's a big blow for the government because this is their flagship plan to solve the small boats crisis. |
| 1:27.2 | It's one of Ritchie Sunak's key priorities and it's also the issue that beats the economy, beats the cost of living even among Tory voters at the last election. |
| 1:37.6 | So it's really crucial for the government to try and solve this issue in order to stay in power at the next election. |
| 1:44.0 | Sunak came out afterwards to have this press conference. |
| 1:48.0 | What are his plans after the ruling by the Supreme Court? |
| 1:51.0 | What he has announced in a press conference is that he will bring forward emergency legislation |
| 1:56.0 | to legislate that Rwanda is a safe third country to remove people to and thereby make it lawful. However, that has run into all sorts of questions already and frankly, MPs on the Tory right don't buy it. They say you can't just legislate to say |
| 2:14.1 | Rwanda's safe, it's still going to meet challenges in the court and we're going to |
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