The Tories' ‘Rwanda plan’ crisis lays bare a party unfit to rule
Prime minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a press conference in Downing Street in London, after he saw the Safety of Rwanda Bill pass its third reading in the House of Commons by a majority of 44 on Wednesday evening, January 18, 2024
IT may seem barely conceivable that the Tory Party would change their leader yet again, imposing a third unelected prime minister on the country in the course of a single parliament.
Yet speculation in Westminster, always near-feverish, is now focused on a new challenge to Rishi Sunak, a politician who certainly puts the “less” into “hapless.”
His tottering premiership has reached a crisis point over his prosecution of the plan he inherited to deport refugees to Rwanda.
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