'Unite or die': Why the Tories can't stop fighting
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The prime minister's plan to send migrants to the African country, where their asylum claims would be processed, is in turmoil following the resignation of immigration minister Robert Jenrick.
He stood down after it was revealed the bill did not allow the government to override the international laws that have stopped the policy in its tracks.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson talks to our deputy political editor Sam Coates about the Tories’ infighting and whether they can overcome it. And Guto Harri, former Downing Street director of communications under Boris Johnson, tells Niall about the “insatiable appetite for self-harm” among Conservatives.
Podcast producer: Soila Apparicio
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:57.1 | to find out how. Welcome to the Daily. I'm Neil Patterson and today we begin with an apology. No, not from |
| 1:07.9 | Boris Johnson, instead from me, to those of you who were expecting to hear about his second day of the COVID inquiry. |
| 1:14.3 | Now, we have had to change tack because no sooner had I left the studio yesterday than the Conservative Party once again poured petrol all over itself and started playing with matches. |
| 1:25.2 | This time, all over the tricky Rwanda illegal migrant policy. |
| 1:29.7 | A little later, I'll be getting the view of one former Downing Street advisor. |
| 1:33.3 | I never cease to be horrified by the capacity of the parliamentary Conservative Party for self-harm. |
| 1:40.4 | But first, our deputy political editor Sam Coates is here. Sam, you know, I'd been geared up to talk |
| 1:46.3 | about Boris Johnson, but in something of a surprise, once again, we're back to Conservative infighting. |
| 1:51.9 | I want to start by annoying you and saying, there are some people wandering around changing the |
| 1:57.0 | episodes of their podcasts as if this is a surprise. But for listeners to the Politics and Jack and Sam's podcast on Sunday, none of this is a surprise |
| 2:06.1 | because you could see it coming. |
| 2:08.1 | You have been able to see this confrontation coming from space. |
| 2:11.9 | It was always going to be more important than the COVID inquiry, days one and two. |
| 2:16.8 | British politics, conservative politics, |
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