Rishi Sunak under pressure as Rwanda Bill reaches committee stages

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00:00 Hello, Grave Blackburn, National World's Politics Editor here from another sunny

00:04 but chilly Westminster. You might love to see my breath as I am speaking.

00:08 It's another big day for Rishi Sunak and the government today as his Rwanda Bill comes back

00:13 to the House of Commons for its committee stage. This is the Bill in which Parliament would in

00:18 theory declare that Rwanda is a safe country for asylum seekers to be sent and Sunak hopes

00:25 that this will mean that the Supreme Court's previous decision that this policy was unlawful

00:31 will effectively no longer be the case. So the committee stage is where MPs get the chance to

00:40 put forward amendments to the Bill and then tomorrow it's likely that MPs will vote on it

00:47 for the third time as part of the third reading. It's a really tricky day for Sunak as he's kind

00:55 of being caught up in a bit of a pincer movement. Labour have put forward amendments against the

00:58 Bill, some of the left-wing side of the Conservatives have as well but the ones to

01:04 watch out for are the ones put forward today by Bill Cash and Robert Jenrick, two of the more

01:09 right-wing MPs in the Conservative Party. They want Rishi Sunak to harden up this Bill and make

01:14 it harder for asylum seekers to put forward legal challenges against being deported to Rwanda. Now

01:20 the government says that they believe this Bill is as strong as it can be and they say if it goes

01:26 any further there's a danger that the Rwandan government might pull out of it. Now I've just

01:33 been in a briefing with Number 10 about this and they say that Rishi Sunak today is still talking

01:40 to MPs, potential rebel MPs, to try and get them on the side. So it shows that the government is

01:47 still not entirely confident with passing this Bill. We'll find out today and tomorrow how that

01:52 goes. You can find all the details about how you MP vote on the politics section of the National

01:57 World website.

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