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Why won’t Rishi honour our £1,000 bet?

1 June 2024

9:00 AM

1 June 2024

9:00 AM

When I interviewed Rishi Sunak in February, I told him I thought his Rwanda plan for ‘stopping the boats’ was an expensive, unworkable dud and offered him a £1,000 bet to be paid to a refugee charity that he wouldn’t get any asylum-seeker planes taking off before the next general election.

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