Is Rishi Sunak about to sack Lee Anderson over Rwanda rebellion?
60 Tory rebels are currently off signing amendments to Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill including - checks notes - his two deputy chairmen who are on the government payroll.
What message does this send out? And why havent they resigned their posts if they cannot even back their Prime Minister?
Rishi is trying to fend off ANY amendment but he is - checks notes again - in the process of hiring extra lawyers, with 5,000 more sitting days - to make sure every individual migrant appeal gets fast tracked out of the way. Is this really the best use of our overstretched legal system?
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