Rwanda plan and COVID inquiry: Rishi Sunak’s toughest week yet | Politics News

The prime minister has given his evidence to the COVID inquiry today, defending his Eat Out to Help Out scheme and revealing Treasury concerns that the UK would not be able to fund the pandemic response.

While at the inquiry, some of Rishi Sunak’s colleagues in parliamentary party have called on the PM to scrap his Rwanda bill as it goes to the Commons tomorrow.

On the Sky News Daily, Jonathan Samuels speaks to our political editor Beth Rigby, who discusses the difficulties Mr Sunak faces within his party over the asylum bill.

Plus, our political correspondent Tamara Cohen reports on the PM’s accounts at the COVID inquiry.

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