Tory minister insists party is ‘united’ despite huge rebellion against Rwanda plan

Tory minister Michael Tomlinson insisted the party was 'united' despite huge rebellion against the Rwanda plan.Source: Sky News

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00:00 If 29 Tory rebels vote against the government,

00:05 this will not go through.

00:06 And according to some of the papers this morning,

00:09 they're suggesting that potentially the Prime Minister

00:11 might have to collapse the government.

00:13 Will there definitely be a vote on the third reading today?

00:17 No, there will definitely be committee stage today.

00:20 This is the second day of committee.

00:22 We had the first day yesterday, six hours of detailed debate

00:26 and constructive, robust exchanges on all sides, actually.

00:30 And what we saw yesterday was a unity of purpose.

00:33 Every single Conservative member of Parliament

00:36 is determined to ensure that the Rwanda policy works

00:39 and to stop the votes.

00:40 And what you saw in contrast to that

00:42 was that Labour can't say what they would do

00:44 because they have no plan.

00:45 The Prime Minister is determined to stop the votes.

00:48 That is why we're bringing forward this legislation.

00:50 And we've got the committee stage that's gonna happen.

00:52 So I think the details, it's not always box office,

00:55 It's not always glamorous, but it's

00:57 the detailed working of the legislation.

00:59 And that's what we'll see this afternoon.