Rishi Sunak has shaken hands on a £1,000 bet with Piers Morgan that Rwanda migrant deportation flights will take off before the next general election. 

Mr Morgan bet the Prime Minister £1,000 to a refugee charity that “you don’t get anybody on those planes before the election”. 

Mr Morgan asked during an interview with Mr Sunak on TalkTV: “Will you take that bet?”  

The Prime Minister replied: “I want to get the people on the planes. Of course I want to get the people on the planes.” 

Mr Sunak did not verbally agree to the bet but the two men did shake hands. 

Mr Morgan then said “£1,000” to which Mr Sunak replied: “I want to get the people on the planes. I am working incredibly hard to get the people on the planes.”

Mr Sunak’s Rwanda Bill, which the Government hopes will pave the way for the flights to finally start, is currently making its way through the House of Lords having already cleared the House of Commons. 

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