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Coffee House Shots

Will there be a summer election?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This morning Rishi Sunak delivered a press conference making the case that the Rwanda Bill should become law today – and the government is ready for when it does. James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson about what could be an all-night parliamentary showdown on the Rwanda vote, and whether an early summer election is on the cards.

Produced by Natasha Feroze. 

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Hello and welcome to coffee house shots. I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by

0:24.4

Katie Balls and Fraser Nelson. Now this morning the Prime Minister has an

0:27.6

press conference in number 10 talking about the Rwanda bill which returns to the

0:30.7

Commons. It could be finally become Lord tonight.

0:33.4

Katie, talk us through the whole issue of Rwanda.

0:36.2

Yes, so in terms of the ping-pong game that has been played with this bill,

0:40.9

we're now at a new level in terms of Lords resistance and

0:44.8

the hoping government and the Whips office was that it would have got for the

0:48.9

Lords last week, they added more amendments and therefore another showdown comes today.

0:54.6

Now MPs are hoping to really be off the hook after today and they can go and campaign for the local elections.

0:59.7

But I think it would be helpful to them if they could say this is now on the road to Roy the cent.

1:05.0

Ritchie is going to use this press conference today to effectively say, you know, lay off on the opposition and we are going to, you know, we are going to pass this bill and if that takes staying up to the

1:16.3

we small hours then so be it because nothing's going to get in our way and flights to

1:20.8

Rwanda are going to happen. He also talked about the timing around flights to Rwanda saying once it becomes Royal

1:27.0

descent, saying there's no way it wouldn't, and once it did, then you potentially have 10 to 12 weeks to make an operational.

1:33.2

So I think we now move, even those who define spring loosely,

1:37.5

I think we now have to admit it's not happening in anything we might call spring.

1:41.6

Now I think they're saying 10 to 12 weeks. There are some in government who hope

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