Prime minister tries to win round potential rebels before vote on Rwanda deportation bill this evening
One Conservative MP who met Sunak at the breakfast meeting said afterwards that he still had to make up his mind on whether he would support the bill and needed to get a second opinion on “legal technicalities” from barristers.
Jonathan Gullis, a member of the New Conservatives grouping, told Talk TV:
I still have those concerns that we will end up being bogged down by individual claims that means we will see very few people put on a plane to Rwanda.
As the former immigration minister Robert Jenrick has said, we don’t want one or two token flights with five to 10 people. We need to see planes full to the hilt flying off to Rwanda, and then, I hope other safe countries.
Continue reading…Prime minister tries to win round potential rebels before vote on Rwanda deportation bill this eveningOne Conservative MP who met Sunak at the breakfast meeting said afterwards that he still had to make up his mind on whether he would support the bill and needed to get a second opinion on “legal technicalities” from barristers.Jonathan Gullis, a member of the New Conservatives grouping, told Talk TV:I still have those concerns that we will end up being bogged down by individual claims that means we will see very few people put on a plane to Rwanda.As the former immigration minister Robert Jenrick has said, we don’t want one or two token flights with five to 10 people. We need to see planes full to the hilt flying off to Rwanda, and then, I hope other safe countries. Continue reading…