Piers Morgan Bets Rishi Sunak £1,000 That Rwanda Deportations Won’t Go Ahead During Interview
TalkTV host Piers Morgan bet Prime Minister Rishi Sunak £1,000 that Rwanda migrant deportation flights will go ahead.
The high-stakes bet, aimed to benefit a refugee charity, was struck during a riveting TalkTV interview where Morgan challenged Sunak, putting down a wager that the Tory leader “get anybody on those planes before the election.”
Sunak shook hands with presenter in acceptance.
“Well, I want to get the people on the planes, right?” the prime minister replied. “Of course I want to get the people on the planes. £1,000. Right? I want to get the people on the planes. I’m working incredibly hard to get the people on the planes.”
The host continued to push: “Do you think that should be the priority when, at the same time, the ONS just predicted we could hit 73 million people who, in this country, coming in not on boats, but coming in the normal immigration system by 2036? Most people go, well, that seems massively more problematic to me.”
Sunak said: “People talk to me a lot about illegal migration, as I’m sure they talk to you about you. It’s important that we grip it, and Rwanda is one part of an overall plan that is working. And you say, scratching your head, Albania is an example of why it’s working. We created a new returns agreement with Albania. It meant that if people came here illegally, we could send them back, and you know what? They stopped coming. Rwanda will do the same thing for us.”
Morgan responded: “I do not think it’s going to work for you. That’s my grim prediction.”
“But you don’t have an alternative way to solve that problem, then?” the prime minister pressed back.
“No, I’m not prime minister,” Morgan replied.
The legislation, which has already sailed through the House of Commons and is now navigating the House of Lords, is seen as the linchpin in the government’s efforts to initiate the flights and achieve another of its policy goals.
The full interview will be released on the Piers Morgan Uncensored YouTube channel at 2pm (GMT) and TalkTV at 8pm (GMT) on Monday.
