Stanley Johnson has shared his support for Rishi Sunak as pressure mounts on the Prime Minister over the growing division within the Conservative Party.
The Tory infighting was sparked on Monday when Suella Braverman was sacked as Home Secretary, after accusing the Met Police of "playing favourites" with their handling of protests in the capital.
Sunak the carried out a cabinet reshuffle which saw James Cleverly replace Braverman in the role, and former Prime Minister David Cameron made a surprise return to frontline politics, becoming the new Foreign Secretary.
In a scathing attack on the Prime Minister, Braverman penned a letter following her exit, accusing Sunak of "repeatedly failing" to deliver on his key policies.
Stanley Johnson says Rishi Sunak could 'win the next election'
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued another blow to the Prime Minister's migration plans as they ruled the Rwanda policy "unlawful".
President of the Supreme Court Lord Reed, told the court in the verdict that Rwanda posed "serious questions" about their ability to comply with the UK's planned agreement.
After the ruling, Prime Minister Sunak held a press conference where he vowed to invoke emergency legislation to declare Rwanda a "safe country".
He added: "I do not agree with this decision, but I respect it and accept it. The rule of law is fundamental to our democracy. We have prepared for all outcomes of this case. And so we have been working on a new international treaty with Rwanda."
Speaking to GB News, father of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Stanley Johnson, shared his thoughts on the current state of the Conservative Party, and their efforts to tackle the growing migration problem.
When asked by host Isabel Webster if Sunak has "done enough" to appease the right wing of the party, Johnson said he "cannot see any appetite in the Tory party for another brutal assassination".
Johnson revealed: "I think that Mr. Sunak is going to be fairly confident that he will survive until the next election. And who knows, he may win it.
"The right of the party will have to realise that the wider issue is to see that the UK's immigration problem is only part of a much larger European problem. And unless you solve the larger European problem, and that in turn, by the way, is part of the worldwide problem."
Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure from the right wing of the Tory party
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Johnson explained that government will now need to "look at the language" of the treaties the UK is a part of, following the ruling.
He said: "I think all we can do at the moment is stick to our guns to say we do have to get immigration under control. We have to take whatever means we can do that.
"We have to say at the end of the day, maybe we have to look again at some of the language in the treaties we have signed up to, because it's not just the Convention on Human Rights.
"So I think honestly we have to say it has worked, this policy of discouragement did work in the case of Australia. We have to make it work here."
