What if Rishi Sunak loses his crunch Rwanda vote?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:15.3 | Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots, |
| 0:20.6 | the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Natasha Rose and I'm joined by |
| 0:24.8 | Katie Balls and James Heel. The Rwanda bill faces its first test in Parliament this |
| 0:30.5 | afternoon and Katie this is a big week for Sunak what happened |
| 0:35.1 | yesterday and what do you think we could expect today? Yeah I think we're basically |
| 0:39.8 | shaping up for the most important Commons vote of Ritchie Sunac's |
| 0:43.6 | Premiership. Now the Windsor Framework I think was a really crunch moment in the |
| 0:47.6 | spring but the crucial difference was Kirsdama offered to support Rishi Sunak to give him the support of labour. |
| 0:56.2 | So it did matter what the size of the Tory rebellion was on the Windsor framework and they got it down |
| 1:01.1 | to a pretty low number. I think it was 29 MPs who voted |
| 1:04.5 | against including the DUP. But you always had the safety blanket, one the Tory government |
| 1:09.4 | didn't really want to use, but a safety blanket nonetheless that labor backing meant that his policy would go through. |
| 1:16.3 | What Ritchie Scenic faces today is his bid to salvage the Rwanda policy since the Supreme Court verdict saying the scheme is |
| 1:25.1 | unlawful. This is his plan B. We've already had the illegal migration bill at |
| 1:29.4 | the beginning of the year that was originally seen as a way to unify the Tory party and take the |
| 1:34.9 | fight to labour. Of course the Supreme Court verdict means that hasn't been able to |
| 1:38.9 | have the effect work in operation with the Rwanda scheme. |
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