Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill comfortably survived the latest bout of madness from Tory rebels – we wish him luck

Rishi’s relief

AFTER all the psychodrama Rishi Sunak comfortably survived the latest bout of madness from grandstanding Tory rebels reliving what they recall as their Brexit glory years.

It was a ridiculous spectacle: Self-important no-marks throwing their weight around, basking in the limelight, even strong-arming the PM into inviting them in for a breakfast summit.

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But the Rwanda Bill passing its first vote merely tees up weeks of battles — amendments to be defeated or agreed and a huge ruck with unelected peers.

We wish Mr Sunak luck.

But his party must get a grip or die.

Its warring factions need to take a deep breath over Christmas, then sober up fast so they can see clearly.

Ex-Tory leader Lord Hague wrote yesterday how too many of his party have never known life out of power and do not yet grasp what opposition entails.

It means gruelling, miserable, pointless irrelevance . . . for years, maybe even forever.

And that’s just those who survive an election wipeout.

If the polls are right, abject defeat may be the Tories’ fate next year.

If the head-bangers and the hand-wringers continue to split the party, believing they still have the luxury of undermining their leader, it is nailed-on.

Labour vacuum

FOR all the Tories’ woes, at least they have a plan for illegal migration.

Labour’s ­cupboard is embarrassingly bare.

Keir Starmer would “roll up his sleeves” and do more deals with the EU to smash the smuggling gangs.

Told that Rishi Sunak was already doing that, he said he would do it “more”.

He also hinted he wasn’t against offshore processing for illegals and would consider whatever worked.

Except he would axe the Rwanda scheme even if it DOES deter arrivals.

It is simply incoherent.

What a Copout

THE preposterous Cop28 eco circus can hardly be bettered as an exercise in undermining the fight against climate change.

Its 2023 host is a petrostate, the UAE, and its president a sultan who not only runs an oil giant but believes there is no evidence that phasing out fossil fuels will limit global warming.

Some 84,000 delegates flew to Dubai — the elite in private jets — pumping out countless tons of carbon while demanding everyone else cuts their emissions.

All of which might be vaguely defensible if anything got done.

But this year’s draft “deal” so far only urges nations to cut fossil fuels if and when they can.

Seems reasonable. But do we need some annual jamboree to tell us that?

Every year Cop delegates assume their musings are of critical importance.

While the rest of the world ignores them.