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Kate Ferguson

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Political Editor at The Sun on Sunday. Described as "always living my life in the future" by the PM's spox. Can be contacted at [email protected]

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I love how enthusiastic James Cleverly is on the front benchā€¦.

Heckling Labour, shaking and nodding his head and gesticulating wildly

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Some key Tory rebels missing from PMQs today

Danny Kruger, Miriam Cates and Robert Jenrick all missing I thinkā€¦.

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Rishi Sunak is seeing more Tory rebels in his office today today to try to persuade them to back the Rwanda Bill

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Another leading Tory rebel says they expect ā€œdecent numbersā€ of Tory MP to vote AGAINST second reading of the Rwanda Bill tonight

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Anther wavering rebel tells me they are leaning towards voting for the Rwanda Bill tonight and will look at amending it.

ā€œI think there is a golden path to get this plan throughā€

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ERG, Common Sense Group and New Conservatives holding a meeting tonight as they decide how to vote on Rwanda Bill

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One Tory rebel told Rishi Sunak that he needs to stop running a ā€œsocialist governmentā€

Thatā€™s when the PM defended his record and spoke about tax cuts

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Rishi Sunak told rebels at the breakfast that he is ā€œwilling to listen to ideasā€ to ā€œtighten the bill.

But he never mentioned amendments.

He urged them to ā€œcome togetherā€ and unify behind the bill

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Sounds like Tory rebels on the right more likely to abstain than vote against the Billā€¦.

One tells me ā€œIā€™m still deciding. But will probably abstainā€

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Lots of talks going on behind the scenes as Tory rebels weigh up going nuclear and voting the bill down today, or biding their time and trying to amend.

New Conservatives holding more meetings later todayā€¦.after their breakfast summit with PM this morning

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Itā€™s D Day for Rishi Sunak and his Rwanda policy - so how will the Tory rebels vote?

Re-upping this punchy op ed Danny Kruger & Miriam Cates wrote for the Sun on Sunday

They warn the Tories will ā€œunite and dieā€ if they get the boats bill wrong

thesun.co.uk/news/25002217/ā€¦

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More from todays breakfast meeting:

* PM was challenged about high immigration figures and why he didnā€™t act sooner to bring in curbs

* Tax cuts were raised - Iā€™m told the PM raised them

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Rishi Sunak told Tory rebels at breakfast that he is open to amending the Rwanda Bill - but amendments ā€œmust be limitedā€

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New: University of Bristol says it has 'withdrawn the Emeritus and Honorary Status' of former employee Harriet Bradley after she tweeted that someone should 'blow up' a Jewish Labour Movement conference šŸ‘‡

labourlist.org/2023/12/anti-sā€¦

labourlist.org/2023/12/anti-sā€¦

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