London- The British Prime Minister passes Rishi Sonak In difficult days, after the hope sought by the leadership Conservative Party To unite their ranks and lead them in the upcoming general elections next year, as Sunak has become the subject of sharp division within the party’s ranks.
In a scene that is frequently repeated in British political practice, when the closest political friends turn into adversaries, the person most likely to lead a campaign against Sunak is his former friend and ally, the former Interior Minister. Suella Braverman.
Braverman spares no effort in attacking Sunak and his attempt to pass the plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, after the blow he received from the Supreme Court, which stated that the previous deportation plan was illegal.
The issue of deporting refugees to Rwanda is considered the key to the division within the Conservative Party, between a supporter of Sunak and an opponent demanding his departure.
Yesterday’s friend…today’s opponent
British political analyzes do not differ on Braverman’s campaign to campaign to win over the right and the extreme right, by raising the slogan of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda at any cost, even if this price is jumping on all international agreements and covenants that Britain has signed related to human rights.
Braverman leads dozens of Conservative Party MPs, who are explicitly calling for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as from the European Court, to ensure that the European Court does not interfere in deportation decisions, and does not have any authority to stop them.
On the other hand, the Prime Minister resists these demands, claiming that they will harm the United Kingdom’s reputation in the world and affect its relationship with the Europeans. He is trying to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision by proposing an emergency law that he will present to Parliament next week, considering that Rwanda is a safe destination.
But Braverman considers that Sunak’s plan is “doomed to failure,” because it will leave the door open to resorting to the European Court, and then postpone any deportation process, amid a number of media reports about Braverman mobilizing support to oust Sunak, which is explained by the increasing number of messages that They flock to the “1922 Committee” charged with receiving letters from parliamentarians demanding the withdrawal of confidence from the Prime Minister.
Although Braverman denies the accusations of conspiring to overthrow Sunak, all her movements and statements go towards attacking him and showing the incorrectness of his decisions.
Government division
The blows on Sunak continued with the resignation of his friend, ally, and immigration minister, Robert Jennerk, who protested against Sunak’s refusal to announce his withdrawal from the European Court of Human Rights. He said in his resignation letter that “the current plan holds many hopes, but it is unrealistic, in resolving the crisis of deporting asylum seekers.”
The departure of the Minister of Immigration opened the door to speculation about the departure of other ministers, as the British newspaper “The Guardian” quoted government sources as saying that “there are 10 ministers who are considering resigning in the coming days.”
The Conservative Party considers that the Rwanda card is the only card remaining in their upright to present to voters during the next year, after the inability to achieve any of the other demands, whether economic or social, and the conservative representatives, especially from the right-wing conservative movement, want the elections to arrive and the planes have begun deporting asylum seekers. To Rwanda.
The conservatives also want to focus only on the deportation plan and divert attention from their failure to achieve the promise of reducing the number of new immigrants, which has become an impossible task after their number during the past year reached more than 745 immigrants. If the conservatives want to return it to the levels of 2010 when they took power, they must reduce the number by more. Of 300,000 immigrants, which is impossible to achieve in a few months, and that is why they want to tell their voters that they have fulfilled the promise of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda, and turning a blind eye to the promise of reducing the number of immigrants.
A referendum on Sunak’s popularity
In this context, Sunak announces that submitting the emergency law for a vote by Parliament during this week will be a referendum on the confidence he enjoys in the ranks of his party, and the Conservatives face difficult choices. If they abandon their leader, they will enter a new spiral in search of a new leader. Or Sunak may announce early elections.
If they support his new plan to deport refugees and it does not succeed this time either, they will lose the last electoral card that might protect them from criticism from their voting blocs, and thus they are faced with two options, the worst of which is bitter, especially with the countdown to the general elections starting immediately after the Christmas holidays.
As for the dismissed Minister of the Interior, Suella Braverman, her calculations go beyond the upcoming elections, as she wants to present herself as the next leader of the Conservative Party, and holds hard-line ideas about immigrants and refugees.
