Tory deputy chairmen resign to support rebel amendments to Rwanda Bill
Lee Anderson with his idol, Boris Johnson: it seems he may now try to remove one of Johnson’s successors as prime minister.
Has Rishi Sunak lost control?
It would seem so, after Tory Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resigned in order to support rebel amendments to Sunak’s Rwanda Bill.
And Jane Stevenson, a parliamentary private secretary in the Department for Business and Trade, also confirmed she had offered her resignation after voting for the rebel amendments.
This Site discussed the amendments and the reasons behind them here.
As far as This Writer can tell, the amendments they supported failed.
This suggests to me that they will want to vote the Bill down today (Wednesday, January 17, 2024) – as urged by former Home Secretary Suella Braverman. She, together with Robert Jenrick, who proposed the rebel amendments, has said she is prepared to vote against the bill if it is not improved.
More could join them and it has been reported that only 30 Tories need to join the Opposition for the Bill to be voted down.
If that happens, it could be treated as a ‘no confidence’ vote in Sunak’s leadership.
And that could mean the end of him. What then?
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