Thérèse Coffey Lectures Labour On ‘Kigali’ Thinking Rwandan Capital Is Different Country

Thérèse Coffey, the former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister, was humiliated after lecturing Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper for her mention of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.

Cooper accurately referred to the “government in Kigali” only to be wrongly corrected by Coffey, who claimed Kigali was a separate nation in an attempt to score cheap points during the Commons Rwanda bill debate Wednesday night.

“I have to say, I was somewhat astonished by the speech of the Shadow Home Secretary, who can’t even get the name of the country right, talking about the Kigali government, when we’re talking about Rwanda,” Coffey said, unaware that she was the one who didn’t have her facts straight..

The blunder, made amidst a pivotal debate on the Government’s Rwanda plan, left Cooper quietly laughing on the bench. The faux pas came on a significant day as MPs voted on the Rwanda plan, which passed on its third reading after a chaotic week of rebellion by the Tory right.