Tories on edge of precipice as Sunak grapples with Rwanda bill rebellion
by Peter Walker Deputy political editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6HWWB)
PM will recall how Tory anger toppled May, Johnson and Truss as he seeks solution to party fractures
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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