{"id":134994,"date":"2023-12-06T15:19:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=134994"},"modified":"2023-12-06T15:19:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:19:20","slug":"penny-mordaunts-pained-expression-summed-up-battered-rishi-sunaks-pmqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/penny-mordaunts-pained-expression-summed-up-battered-rishi-sunaks-pmqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Mordaunt’s pained expression summed up ‘battered’ Rishi Sunak’s PMQs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rishi Sunak mocks Keir Starmer with Angela Rayner dig in PMQs<\/h3>\n

Sometimes a look can say more than thousands of words.<\/p>\n

And that was certainly the case today with Penny Mordaunt’s crestfallen expression as she sat close to Rishi Sunak as he tried to survive another day.<\/p>\n

The fixed look she gave him was the sort you would expect when somebody sees a badly injured puppy or hears from a dear friend that their child is seriously ill.<\/p>\n

It mirrored the pain of the situation with a fixed if not entirely sympathetic grimace.<\/p>\n

And there was a lot to look pained about.<\/p>\n

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Today was never going to be a good day for Sunak.<\/p>\n

The man he knifed as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was giving public evidence down the road, his former Home Secretary Suella Braverman was warming up for her personal statement on her sacking and his MPs are at open civil war over what to do about illegal migration.<\/p>\n

The right – the European Research Group, Common Sense Group and New Conservatives – last night issued their demands for removing the power of the European Convention of Human Rights, Refugee Convention and other treaties in his emergency legislation to get the Rwanda deportation flights off the ground or they would send in letters for a leadership confidence vote.<\/p>\n

The left of his party – the One Nation Group – issued demands that he did not agree to those terms or they would rebel.<\/p>\n

No surprise then that Sir Keir Starmer ruthlessly went in for the kill on the Rwanda issue – and he had many targets to hit.<\/p>\n

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