Sunak wins the Rwanda vote – but the battle is far from over
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:19.3 | Hello and welcome to coffee house shots. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm Katie Balls and I'm welcome to Coffee House Shots. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Kati Bors and I'm joined by James Heel and was stood on the roof of Parliament following |
| 0:29.2 | I think we could say a crunch vote for the Prime Minister. |
| 0:32.3 | Now James, we've just had the results of when it comes |
| 0:34.6 | to the Prime Minister's Rhonda Plan B. There was lots of I think her worry ahead of |
| 0:41.2 | this vote but in the anti he won it fairly comfortably at 313 |
| 0:45.2 | votes to 269 against not a single Tory MP voted against the bill but 38 |
| 0:52.0 | Conservative MPs abstained. What do you make of the result? |
| 0:56.4 | So it's a good day for number 10 in that they have managed to get this through without a |
| 1:00.4 | single Tory MP coming out against it despite all that noise and fury over the past week. |
| 1:04.4 | The rise of the party and certain members of E.G. I've been speaking to this evening |
| 1:08.1 | and we're saying, well look, you know, have had 30 have sanctions. Clearly that's more than the 29 votes needed to vote against it. Therefore, this is very much laying |
| 1:14.6 | down a marker keeping their powder dry and hoping to have a fight further down the line, potentially |
| 1:19.3 | at committee stage. And of course, as we said before on this podcast, no bill, the government bill has been rejected |
| 1:24.1 | a second reading since 1986. It would have gone against the greater history to have had this bill rejected tonight. |
| 1:28.9 | They therefore think this fight can be deferred into the new year. And the question for number |
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