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forward slash voucher. Vulture. Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm joined by Katie Bals and Spectator contributor Patrick O'Flin.

Now Katie, last night we had the vote on

the Rwanda bill in the Commons. Tell us about how that went. So I went fairly well

for the government in the sense they managed to strip out all 10 amendments that were sent back

from the House of Lords and that was done with little in the way of internal Tory drama

so I think in terms of recent standards that is a victory for Ritchie

Sunach if you think about all the struggles at second and third reading where you had

one part of the Tory party led by Robert Genrick and Suella Bravenman ultimately say the bill was not going to work and it seems

you would have this unholy alliance between Labour and the Tory rebels to try and stop the bill.

Those days are now over since the bill was sent to the laws, I think the view amongst the rebels has been well

we tried to change it to try and get a number tend to come back for a tougher bill that hasn't worked

but now we that opportunity is gone we're not going to be wreckers on this bill for no

reason. So you saw MPs staying up pretty late, 10 votes, lots of time to

plot or talk about how much they love their leader, probably the former, as they've got these out.

Now the question is, will the Lords put back in the amendments or some of these amendments,

and therefore we have a long game of ping pong between the

Commons and the House of Laws which is going to delay the point to which the bill receives

royal dissent which in term a delay when flights could potentially get off the ground. Now, labor figures suggest that

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