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

Tories on edge of precipice as Sunak grapples with Rwanda bill rebellion

Theresa May laughs while Rishi Sunak speaks during prime minister's questions at the Commons in 2023.
The prime minister might have some retrospective sympathy for his predecessor-but-two, Theresa May. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament/AFP/Getty Images

Rishi Sunak was the most junior of ministers when Theresa May faced her worst Brexit ructions, but as he battles Commons votes, endless amendments and mutinous Conservative factions, the prime minister might have some retrospective sympathy for his predecessor-but-two.

The parallels do not end there. With Brexit largely viewed as completed, Sunak’s Rwanda deportation bill has become emblematic of what many Tory MPs see as the party’s main ideological battleground: migration, and most specifically, small boats.

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