Rishi Sunak’s breakfast meeting, this morning, with Tory backbenchers at No 10 exposed more tensions and challenges within the Conservative parliamentary party.
Danny Kruger initiated the dialogue, presenting Sunak with three stark choices regarding the Rwanda bill.
Sunak expressed willingness to consider amendments but refused to withdraw the bill, citing inherited issues like legal migration and the small boats crisis.
MPs like Jonathan Gullis and Marco Longhi expressed frustration over lack of engagement from the government, while Nick Fletcher urged the government to embrace more traditional Tory values.
The meeting, lacking the chief whip’s presence, left some MPs swayed by Sunak’s openness to amendments, but others remain skeptical of his commitment.
