As Tuesday’s crucial vote looms, MPs from both wings of the party say PM has tied his future to a bill that cannot succeed
Senior Tories from across the party are warning that Rishi Sunak’s emergency Rwanda plan will never become law in its current form, ahead of the most critical vote of his premiership.
Liberal Tories confirmed last night that, despite their desire to back the PM against the right, “serious concerns” remain about the plan and more reassurances will be required. Meanwhile, a self-styled “star chamber” of legal figures examining the proposals for the Tory right is understood to have found problems that are “extremely difficult to resolve”.
It means that, despite Tory whips believing they will have enough support to win the first vote over the proposals on Tuesday, there is nervousness among moderate Tories that Sunak is set on a course that has united his opponents and will ultimately imperil his leadership. “This is a bit like Brexit in the sense that it will have the effect of drawing the whole of the right together,” one influential figure on the right said. “It is the uniting of the right.”
It's such a pointless policy they wasted so much money and time on it and it won't ever work, and even if it did pass no one will care because it'll deport all of 30 people by the time it's finished.
The trouble is they've lost sight of the fact that this was only ever supposed to be a vote winner and never a solution to a real problem. The Tories created the problem they're absolutely not going to fix it.
In one sense I agree that starting a lengthy rejoin process would be wasteful at this point, and detract from more important issues. However, we desperately need to get away from this hard right Tory approach of sticking two fingers up to the EU at every turn, and deriding anyone that even suggests working with them.
The EU is or largest and closest trading partner, and if the small boats crisis is truely to be addressed it will require collaboration and compromise between nations (not you Rwanda). The constant suggestion that any steps closer to the EU would be some kind of 'betrayal' of an imaginary majority of the public drives me crazy, and that goes for Labour (specifically Starmer) as well.