Sky News published this video item, entitled “Watch live: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds Rwanda bill news conference at Downing Street” – below is their description.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will hold a press conference at 10am after his controversial Rwanda bill passed its latest stage in parliament – despite rebellions from his own backbenchers.
The legislation – which aims to deter asylum seekers from making small boat crossings by threatening deportation to the African nation – passed its third reading in the Commons last night with a majority of 44.
But 11 Tory MPs, including former ministers Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick, voted against the bill after days of attempts by a larger group of right-wing Conservatives to toughen up the law with their own amendments.
A further 18 Tory MPs abstained from the vote.
And a Tory rebel source told Sky News’s political editor Beth Rigby that “several” letters of no confidence in Mr Sunak had now been submitted
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