Duty calls, MPs

AFTER a night of drama and resignations over the Rwanda Bill, Conservative MPs must tomorrow decide whether to let the legislation pass, or sink it altogether.

We urge them to remember their first duty is to the country — and vote in favour of PM Rishi Sunak’s plan.

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This week’s YouGov polling may have confirmed how far the Tories have fallen in the public’s estimation since 2019.

But what it also showed was the huge demand from ordinary people for them to tackle illegal immigration.

Let’s be clear, no one really expects Labour — led by human rights champion Sir Keir Starmer — to do this.

So it falls to the Tories to get a belated grip on our borders. Indeed, their very survival seems to now depend on it.

Rishi’s Bill may not be perfect.

But if the PM follows through on promises to fast-track migrant appeals, and backs that up by ignoring Euro judges, it all might just work.

What very much won’t do is to spend months fighting over legislation.

Voters won’t put up with it.

Let us hope sense prevails on the Tory backbenches tomorrow night.

Post disgrace

WHEN will the useless fat cats who presided over the persecution of postmasters ever stop meting out fresh punishment?

Even today as he appeared in front of a committee of MPs, Post Office chief executive Nick Read delivered another kick in the teeth.

He admitted that money that should have gone on compensation to those wrongly prosecuted may have been spent on bonuses for senior staff.

Hero postmaster Alan Bates says his former colleagues are dying while waiting for compensation.

Here was shocking proof of where some of that cash might have gone.

Fujitsu boss Paul Patterson did at least admit the Japanese firm had a “moral obligation” to pay towards the scheme.

That will be a relief to taxpayers who have so far footed the entire bill for this sickening scandal.

But for the postmasters, the grinding fight for justice goes on and on.

Tragic delay

IT’S almost beyond comprehension to imagine the final days of tragic two-year-old Bronson Battersby as he slipped away in confusion and agony, clutching the leg of his dead dad.

Few stories will hit home as hard as the terrible set of circumstances that conspired against little Bronson and his father.

Questions will rightly be asked over why it took so long for their bodies to be discovered by social services and police.

Answers must be found — and quickly.