Rishi Sunak has rowed back on a £1,000 bet with the broadcaster Piers Morgan on whether deportation flights to Rwanda would take off before the general election, saying he was “not a betting person”.
The prime minister said on Tuesday he had been “taken by surprise” when Morgan said to him during a TalkTV interview: “I’ll bet you £1,000 to a refugee charity [that] you don’t get anybody on those planes before the election. Will you take that bet?”
