Rishi Sunak will answer Prime Minister’s Questions today as he faces a diplomatic row over the Elgin Marbles and his plan to tackle soaring net migration.
The prime minister canceled a meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday, saying the Parthenon sculptures were “in the right place.”
Mr. Mitsotakis compared separating the prints to cutting them out. Mona Lisa halved in an interview with the BBC.
On immigration, several countries are willing to enter into Rwandan-style deportation deals with the UK if the government succeeds in making the plan legal, Home Secretary James Cleverley told MPs.
What time is PMQ today?
PMQs start at normal time 12:00and the session lasts about half an hour. You can watch the Prime Minister’s proceedings live on the UK Parliament’s YouTube channel.
On television, the premiere talks will be broadcast live on BBC News and Sky News and can be accessed online via BBC iPlayer and Sky News live on YouTube.
What can we expect from PMQs?
Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer is likely to question the Prime Minister over the Elgin Marbles case after his party leader Anneliese Dodds criticized Sunak’s response.
She said it was “important that we have a government response” to the issue and accused Mr Sunak of being “rather thin-skinned and childish”.
She told Sky News: “There are really important, critical issues that need to be discussed internationally, whether with the Greek government or with other Nato allies.”
“Keir Starmer met with the Prime Minister of Greece and he focused on these issues, those issues that are vital to the interests of our country, but all we have heard from the Prime Minister seems to be stomping his feet, and that is a bit annoying when you leave.”
“This is really not the standard of behavior that we can expect from the prime minister of our country.”
She said the decision to return the marbles to Greece was made by the British Museum.
Meanwhile, the prime minister is under pressure from his party over immigration as the government continues to seek an alternative to its Rwanda plan.
A heated debate is brewing over whether planned emergency legislation will give ministers the power to overturn a decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) so that deportation flights cannot be blocked by the Strasbourg court.
Here’s what the Tory insider had to say I that between 20 and 40 MPs could rise up and introduce provisions into legislation that ignore the ECHR because they believe that without them the policy will grind to a halt.
On Monday, Immigration Secretary Robert Jenrick appeared to breach the collective responsibility of the cabinet in the House of Commons, expressing frustration that his efforts to reduce net migration had been hampered for a year.
He said the public was “fed up” with talk of cutting immigration and called for a “serious package of fundamental reforms”, saying he would have done it “before last Christmas if I could”.
Source: I News
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