Questions of no-confidence rise at Sunak's Rwanda conference

NationalWorld.com

Watch Questions of no-confidence rise at Sunak's Rwanda conference - NationalWorld.com on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00 Hello, Rafe Blackburn, National World Politics Editor here in Westminster.

00:03 I've just come out of a press conference with Rishi Sunak where he is clinging to his job,

00:10 I guess.

00:11 Now, the press conference itself was about his new Rwanda bill, which he says has gone

00:16 farther than any UK legislation before in terms of ensuring that the rule of Parliament

00:23 is sovereign.

00:25 The basic aim of this bill is to disapply certain sections of UK law and stop any legal

00:30 challenges to sending asylum seekers to Rwanda as Parliament, in theory, declares that Rwanda

00:39 is safe.

00:40 That was the bill he was bringing through last night.

00:45 It started in Parliament last night.

00:46 I was there to witness that.

00:47 And his immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, was not on the front benches with him.

00:53 So, basically what this means is Robert Jenrick and a part of the right of the Conservative

00:58 Party are not happy with this bill.

01:00 They don't think it goes far enough.

01:03 And he resigned last night, which completely caught Rishi Sunak by surprise.

01:08 And it's kind of threatened to bring down his whole premiership as if when the bill

01:14 goes to vote, a large chunk of the Conservatives vote against it.

01:19 It will essentially be a confidence vote in Rishi Sunak because he can't command a majority

01:26 in Parliament and can't get legislation through.

01:29 It's a similar thing to happen with Theresa May and the Brexit laws.

01:34 Now, that was why he called this press conference this morning.

01:37 He said he was very confident the bill would get passed.

01:41 He said it was the toughest bit of legislation the UK has ever passed in relation to this.

01:46 However, when questions were asked about him, is this a confidence vote?

01:51 Will you call an election if you lose it?

01:53 He said, no, it's not.

01:55 And he said the question is actually for the Labour Party.

01:58 Now, to me, that came across as if he was looking a bit desperate, as really the issues

02:05 here very much are with Rishi Sunak and this 140 million plus bit of legislation, which

02:10 still hasn't sent a migrant to Rwanda.

02:13 And he kept saying, you know, the question is for the Labour Party.

02:16 They need to come up with a solution.

02:17 They need to come up with a policy.

02:20 Actually the question is for Rishi Sunak and whether he will be able to get this bill passed

02:24 government and if not, we might either have our sixth Conservative Prime Minister of the

02:28 last 13 years and that would be the fourth in the last 18 months.

02:33 Or we might have another election.

02:37 So yeah, a lot of questions for Rishi Sunak.

02:42 My name is Rene Blackburn.

02:43 I'm the Politics Editor of Nationalworld.com based here in Westminster.

02:46 You can follow all of our politics story online or on our app.

02:51 Thank you.

02:52 [END]

02:54 [BLANK_AUDIO]

Category

Transcript

Recommended