Migration has reactivated the deep divisions of Brexit around the world Conservative Partywith at least 60 deputies from the hard wing of the tories challenging the BeforeRishi Sunak and bombing the so-called Law of Rwanda deport asylum seekers to the African country.
Sunak has faced the biggest “rebellion” within its ranks since arriving in Downing Street in October 2022, likened by analysts to that Theresa May faced defending her thwarted deal Brexitsoftdefeated in Parliament in January 2019.
He Before He held the helm amidst the storm that broke out in his ranks and defended his immigration policy with the numbers on the table, denouncing a drop of a third (from 43,774 to 29,437) in the crossings of irregular immigrants in The Sleeve in the last year.
Sunak defended his version of the Law of Rwanda ensuring that the guarantees introduced and the agreement recently signed with the African country will be sufficient to avoid a new intervention by the European Court of Human Rightslike the one that blocked the take-off of the first plane with immigrants heading to Kigali six months ago.
The leader of the Labor opposition Keir StarmerHowever, he attacked the Rwanda Plan claiming that it is «a farce». Starmer anticipated Labour’s vote against «for economic, practical and moral reasons». He Scottish National Party (SNP) also expressed its boycott of the law.
THE tories from the right, practically the same ones from the European Research Group who once closed ranks for Brexit difficult, for their part, opposed Sunak by calling for the abandonment of the 1953 European Convention on Human Rights and eliminating the possibility of appealing deportation cases. From outside Parliament, the first Before Boris Johnson He gave his support to the «rebels», calling for greater firmness against illegal immigration.
One of the harshest attacks on Sunak’s law was launched by his former Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, in a speech that reignited rumors about his aspirations for the future leadership of the tories. Braverman warned that the law proposed by the government will pave the way «for a sequel to what happened in the summer of 2022, when the plane that was supposed to leave for Rwanda was blocked by an intervention of the European Court of Human Rights».
Braverman repeatedly referred to Court of Strasbourg as «a foreign court», which prompted the intervention of Labor MP Stella Creasy: «And what is NATO? A foreign organisation?» The former Interior Minister and hard-wing exponent counterattacked by attacking the British Human Rights Act, promoted by Labor at the time, which allowed the systematic blocking of deportations of foreign criminals.
Robert Jenrick, the former Secretary of State for Immigration, who resigned over his disagreement with Sunak, warned that the Government’s bill has «serious flaws» in its wording and that the amendments proposed by him and other Conservative MPs are «the last chance to do it». Right.»
In the countdown of Law of Rwanda, Sunak also had to deal with the chain resignations of two party vice-presidents, Lee Anderson and Brenda Clarke-Smith. MP Andrea Jenkyns, head of the Eurosceptic organization Leave Means Leave at the time, even went so far as to suggest that the «rebellion» would be accompanied by a motion of censure «so that we could have a new and true conservative leader».
The illegal immigration minister, Michael Tomlinson, sought to remove the gunpowder from the divisions and stressed that the distance separating Sunak from the rebels was «just an inch». «We are all united by a common desire to do Law of Rwanda it works,” Tomlinson said.
The debate took place in the wake of the YouGov poll, commissioned by the British Conservative Alliance, which predicts a debacle of tories in the elections scheduled for this year comparable to that suffered in 1997 before Tony Blair. The survey, published by The daily telegraphgrants to Labor Party Keir Starmer could have a majority of 385 MPs against the Conservative Party’s 169.
Another survey, from Savanta for The daily mailgives the Labor Party a lead of 17 points (44% against 27%) and reveals a flight of votes from the Conservative Party in favor Reform in the United Kingdom of Nigel Farage, who proposed to make immigration his electoral flag.
