{"id":121513,"date":"2023-12-13T22:09:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T22:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=121513"},"modified":"2023-12-13T22:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T22:09:43","slug":"tory-rebel-shuts-down-bbc-host-over-claim-she-is-being-played-by-rishi-sunak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/politics\/tory-rebel-shuts-down-bbc-host-over-claim-she-is-being-played-by-rishi-sunak\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory rebel shuts down BBC host over claim she is being ‘played’ by Rishi Sunak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Tory rebel has denied being \u201cduped\u201d by the Prime Minister as she insisted he could still make changes to his Rwanda plan.<\/p>\n

Miriam Cates, one of the key founding members of the right-wing New Conservative group, said she had been assured by Rishi Sunak that he was \u201copen to negotiations\u201d on changes to the bill. Members of the group, along with the other so-called \u201cfive-families\u201d Conservative groups, had threatened to vote against the Rwanda bill in parliament, warning that they did not believe it would be strong enough to discourage small boat crossings into the UK.<\/p>\n

Explaining her view, Ms Cates, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, said on BBC Politics: \u201cWe have concerns about the way the bill is written on that that actually it wont have the impact that the Governmet says it will have.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that she had been assured by the PM that his lawyers were \u201copen to negotiations\u201d on the scheme – and shot down accusations of being \u201cduped\u201d by him.<\/p>\n

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The Rwanda scheme to fly illegal migrants to the east African country has become a key priority for Mr Sunak, and one that is under massive scrutiny.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister held an emergency press conference last week following the resignation of Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick – which itself came shortly after the resignation of Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Both had been pushing for the Government to legislate past the UK Supreme Court\u2019s ruling that Rwanda would not be safe for migrants in order to enact the scheme.<\/p>\n

Speaking to journalists, Mr Sunak said the difference between Mr Jenrick\u2019s version of the plan and his own was just \u201can inch\u201d – but that his was \u201cthe only approach\u201d.<\/p>\n

The PM said: \u201cGoing any further – that difference is an inch – but going any further would mean that Rwanda would collapse the scheme, and then we will have nowhere to send anyone to – and that is not a way to get this going.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ms Cates said Mr Sunak was \u201copen to negotiations with our lawyers\u201d as she explained the decision to abstain from the bill, rather than vote against it, in a clutch Parliament vote last night. She added: \u201cWe have decided to back the bill in good faith that those discussions will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

But when BBC Politics host Jo Coburn responded: \u201cThe Prime Minister – even if he won\u2019t detail what he said – was very clear, they\u2019ll go no further. And you are saying that he\u2019s open to big changes, so when it comes to being honest with your constituents here, I\u2019m saying to you, are you being played by the Prime Minister, or have you secured something that we don\u2019t know about and are going to find out about?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Cates shot down the accusation that she had been \u201cduped\u201d to prevent her voting against the bill.<\/p>\n

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