Prime minister to speak in north-west of England as MP says Tories have to accept ‘we have left the country sadder and less united’
A petition calling for the former Post Office chief executive, Paula Vennells, to lose her CBE over the Horizon scandal has attracted more than 1 million signatures, Kevin Rawlinson reports.
On Saturday the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg revealed that internal No 10 documents from 2022 showed that, when Boris Johnson’s government was considering the Rwanda deportation scheme, Rishi Sunak as chancellor had significant doubts about the plan. When Kuenssberg interviewed him on her Sunday show yesterday, he claimed that he had always been in favour of the plan in principle but was just subjecting it to proper value-for-money scrutiny.
Rishi Sunak considered axing the Rwanda scheme in July 2022.
He “weighed up” ditching the £290m deportation plan during the Tory leadership election amid fears it would not work …
