New Conservatives’ immigration policy raises questions over Sunak’s authority
by Peter Walker Deputy political editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6CP1B)
For an increasingly beleaguered prime minister, it is yet another split he could really do without
In normal times, you would not expect the deputy chair of your own party to help produce an independent policy programme for migration that is especially different from the government's own. But for Rishi Sunak, these are not normal times.
The presence of Lee Anderson among the New Conservatives, a pressure group of predominantly red wall"-based 2019- and 2017-intake Tory MPs, is just one of the eyebrow-raising elements of their decision to intervene on migration.
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