Robert Jenrick quits frontbench over Rwanda bill, piling pressure on Sunak

[muriel_volestrangler]

Rishi Sunak’s government was plunged into further crisis when the immigration minister quit just hours after the prime minister tabled a bill to save his Rwanda deportation policy.

Robert Jenrick stood down after it was revealed that the legislation did not allow the government to override the international laws that have stopped the government sending asylum seekers to central Africa.
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Jenrick’s resignation will be seen as a move to position himself as the head of the growing rightwing rebellion aimed at ensuring that the UK can act unilaterally and send flights to Kigali.
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Other rightwing Tory MPs were unhappy that the bill does not disapply the ECHR and believe that each asylum seeker could seek an injunction to stop being removed on a flight. “⁠I can’t see how we’ve prevented individual legal challenges,” said one MP.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/06/robert-jenrick-quits-as-immigration-minister-after-rwanda-bill-published

The right wing of the Tories are positioning themselves; Jenrick and Braverman outside the cabinet, and Badenoch (currently) inside - though she's pushing herself as an anti-trans culture warrior: "Gender-affirming care for children ‘form of conversion therapy’, says Badenoch" (god help us, she's the equalities minister)

Jenrick has a long record of dubious behaviour over Covid, and planning permission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenrick

[LeftishBrit]

1. All very worrying

I am worried enough about the proposed legislation to cut legal migration: endangering health and social care even more than it's endangered already.

[róisín_dubh]

2. I'm caught up in this currently

My visa expires in mid-March and my sponsorship is now in danger. I hate these scumbag tories.

[T_i_B]

3. And now 30p Lee and Brendan Clarke-Smith have resigned...

....as Tory Deputy Chairmen over this issue

Both absolutely atrocious appointments by Rishi Sunak in the first place if you ask me.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Totally agree

Talk about scraping the barrel!