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George Osborne: Tory rebels ‘overreached’ on Rwanda Bill
George Osborne claimed Tory Rwanda Bill rebels “overreached” by criticising the legislation and then failing to vote against it earlier this week.
The former chancellor told his Political Currency podcast: “I thought the Conservative rebels overreached… they were threatening to withhold their support and they were demanding concessions from the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister didn’t give them any.
“He gave them a tiny, tiny, very thin ladder to climb down… and he held the line and as a result, they blinked. And that’s not good.
“That’s not good if you’re trying to demonstrate the power of the Conservative right. It’s a really good example of that classic political mistake of issuing a threat that you’re not prepared to carry out.”
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