Rishi Sunak heads into the chamber tonight as the leader of a Conservative Party which has escaped his control. The proximate issue is the second reading of the emergency legislation on an overhauled Rwanda bill to circumvent legal objections in the Supreme Court ruling against the policy.
The greater significance, however, is the waning authority of the PM, who now finds himself on trial at the behest of the “five families” representing about 100 MPs on the Right of the party, voicing varying degrees of dissatisfaction with a bill which represents one of Sunak’s chosen priorities.
