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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

The Rwanda bill passing could be just the start of Sunak’s troubles

Rishi Sunak is driven from the Commons following the Rwanda vote.
Rishi Sunak is driven from the Commons following the Rwanda vote. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/LNP

The good news for Rishi Sunak is that, as widely predicted, his Rwanda bill passed the Commons with relative ease. But in keeping with the curse faced by so many recent Conservative prime ministers, getting what he wants could be just the start of his troubles.

There is one very important point to make first. However tricky things may get implementing the measure, if Sunak had become the first prime minister since 1977 to lose a bill on third reading it would have been disastrous, even politically terminal for him. So he will be pleased.

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