Hunt dismisses Rwanda rebellion as 'lively discussions'
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt dismisses last night's resignations as "lively discussions" inside the Party as he insists the Tories are "united" in the effort to sort out illegal immigration. His comments come as the fate of Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan is in the balance as a crunch vote looms after two Tory deputy chairmen resigned to join the biggest Conservative rebellion of his leadership. Report by Czubalam. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 When you look at what happened in the House of Commons, you can see that the Conservative Party,
00:05 of course we have debates about how to get there, but we are the only party that wants to make the
00:10 Rwanda policy work, wants to have a policy where we are deporting people quickly who arrive here
00:16 illegally, and the Labour Party and the other parties don't want to have a Rwanda plan,
00:21 they don't want a plan that does that, and that is the fundamental divide in British politics.
00:25 And of course it's not easy getting to that point, but in the Conservative Party we are determined
00:31 to do that because we think that is the only way that we'll have a fair immigration system.
00:36 We are united in the Conservative Party in our belief we need to solve this problem. Of course
00:40 we have lively debates inside the party about how to deliver a Rwanda policy, but the big picture is
00:46 there is only one major party in British politics that wants to make Rwanda work, that's the
00:52 Conservative Party, the Labour Party don't, and if you want a fair immigration system where people
00:57 who arrive here illegally are deported quickly, then it is only the Conservative Party that can deliver that.