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Rishi Sunak would be “wise to listen” to Tory rebels and strengthen his Rwanda Bill because the “British public’s patience is wearing thin”, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said.
The former business secretary warned there is a “risk” that the Bill could be torpedoed when it is put to a crunch vote tonight because of the scale of Tory discontent.
He told GB News: “The Government’s current working majority is 54 but we saw 68 votes in favour of Sir Bill’s amendment against the Government [last night].
“So there is a risk that the whole Rwanda Bill could lose [tonight]. The Prime Minister, I think, would be wise to listen to the advice of his backbenchers and make the Bill watertight.
“We’re approaching the two-year mark since Boris Johnson announced the Rwanda plan. And we’ve seen countless obstacles thrown in its way including the European Court of Human Rights and our own Supreme Court, which eccentrically based its judgement, at least in part, on evidence from the United Nations, which uses Rwanda as a place to send refugees.
“The Government itself ought not to become an obstacle to its own plan’s success because the British public’s patience is wearing thin. We cannot have another Bill that doesn’t actually work. This time it must succeed.”
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