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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Rafe Blackburn, National World's Politics Editor

00:11 here in Westminster.

00:12 I've just come out of Downing Street,

00:14 having listened to Rishi Sunak's latest speech

00:17 on his Rwanda bill,

00:19 which is the legislation he wants to pass

00:22 so that Parliament can state that Rwanda is a safe country

00:26 and he can start deporting asylum seekers there

00:29 to try and act as a deterrent.

00:31 Now, he framed this in a very clear way.

00:34 The Conservatives, Sunak, his government,

00:37 they have a plan that is working,

00:39 while the Labour Party, Labour Peers in the House of Lords,

00:42 which have continued to delay the bill,

00:45 they don't have a plan

00:48 and they don't actually want to stop the people smugglers.

00:51 So let's hear a little bit of what Rishi Sunak had to say.

00:55 - Last week, yet again,

00:58 Labour Peers in the House of Lords

00:59 contrived to stop the safety of Rwanda bill.

01:02 For almost two years,

01:03 our opponents have used every trick in the book

01:06 to block flights and keep the boats coming.

01:09 But enough is enough.

01:11 No more prevarication, no more delay.

01:14 Parliament would sit there tonight

01:16 and vote no matter how late it goes.

01:19 No ifs, no buts, these flights are going to Rwanda.

01:23 We are going to deliver this indispensable deterrent

01:26 so that we finally break the business model

01:28 of the criminal gangs and save lives.

01:31 - So as you can hear there,

01:32 Sunak is clearly blaming the Labour Peers in the Lords

01:35 and he says he will make Parliament sit all night

01:38 until this bill is passed.

01:39 At the moment, the bill is in the ping pong stage

01:42 where the Commons sends it to the Lords

01:44 and then the Lords are able to make amendments.

01:46 Now, usually, as the House of Lords is unelected,

01:50 they allow the Commons to have their say

01:54 as the primacy of the elected House.

01:56 However, in this case, they're really putting their foot down

02:00 and are continuing to insist on two specific amendments,

02:04 one of which will mean that people

02:08 who work for the UK abroad,

02:09 so specific, particularly interpreters from Afghanistan

02:13 who work for the UK forces there,

02:15 they would not be sent to Rwanda

02:17 and also they want the government's

02:19 independent monitoring committee

02:21 to decide when Rwanda is safe.

02:24 However, Sunak keeps rejecting these

02:27 and he says he's gonna make them sit all night.

02:29 And the interesting thing about the speech just there

02:32 is A, I thought he appeared a bit more positive,

02:36 he had a bit more of a spring in his step

02:37 than in the previous speeches he's given about Rwanda.

02:40 And he very clearly set out what I think is gonna be

02:46 his argument going into the election

02:48 and that is that we have got flights off the ground.

02:52 I'm assuming he's gonna call the election

02:55 after he gets flights off the ground.

02:56 He said that would happen in about 12 weeks.

02:59 We have a plan that we're embarking on

03:02 to bring about this deterrent.

03:04 However, the Labour Party, they do not.

03:07 And I think he's gonna try and make it

03:09 a single issue election to try and hold off the reform votes

03:16 and also bring back some of those red wall voters

03:19 that lent their vote to the Conservative Party

03:21 for the first time in 2019.

03:22 The issue is that if you look at opinion polls

03:26 and focus groups, actually the number of people

03:29 who say illegal immigration is their main priority

03:34 is quite a small number.

03:35 A lot of it is current Conservative voters,

03:39 but of the wider voting population,

03:41 it's way below the cost of living and the economy.

03:44 And people are still thinking about their high mortgage rates

03:48 after Liz Truss' mini budget.

03:50 So, Rishi Suniak has clearly set out his store

03:54 going forward with the bill and also the next election.

03:57 The question is, will that do anything

04:00 to change Labour's pretty big poll lead,

04:03 which so far has not budged for months and months.

04:07 So, thank you very much for listening

04:09 to another episode of Politics Uncovered.

04:11 You can find all of our politics articles

04:15 on the politics section

04:17 of the nationalworld.com website or app.

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