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Coffee House Shots

Why Lee Anderson's exit is a problem

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

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πŸ—“οΈ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Last night Rishi Sunak faced the largest rebellion of his premiership over amendments to the Rwanda bill. There were also three resignations – deputy chairs Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith as well as PPS to Kemi Badenoch, Jane Stevenson. How much damage could do to his already divided party? Today, MPs will debate for a second time on the government's flagship immigration policy. It is likely the bill will pass through Parliament but that won't mean the Prime Minister is out of the woods yet. How could today play out? Natasha Feroze speaks to James Heale and Katy Balls.

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0:15.6

Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Natasha Frose and

0:24.3

James Heel. Well yesterday was probably one of the biggest challenges of

0:29.0

Ritchie Sunac's Premiership Katie. What happened last night in the Commons?

0:33.0

Yes, so on Tuesday we had the first stage of the amendment votes and you had, I think, if you

0:39.8

count for example Scott Benton Andrew Bridgeton, who were elected as Tories but are no longer

0:47.0

Tory MPs. You have 65 Conservative MPs vote against the government. You also had the DUP joining that group and therefore it's

0:55.7

the biggest revolt that Ritchie Scenic has had during his premiership. It didn't

1:01.5

amassed very much in the sense that as we said before in this podcast

1:06.7

it was never the case really that they were going to succeed in adding their

1:10.1

amendments. Instead it is a show of the support for changing the bill on the Tory

1:15.4

right and I think any blue on blue in town or about is bad for a prime minister's authority, but of course it moves over to the third reading,

1:25.6

which is today.

1:26.6

So later today we'll have more amendments and then quite quickly after that we'll move

1:31.0

to the third reading bill, and that is the point which is if

1:34.1

number 10 as they are suggesting they plan to do do not take it any of these

1:39.8

amendments do the rebels then move to vote down the bill alongside labor?

1:44.0

And if you look at those numbers, that clearly, you don't, you need less than half really of those MPs to vote against to then stop the bill if all of

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