Analysis-Bigger battles await UK's Sunak and his Rwandan migration plan

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reacts outside 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, December 13, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak might have emerged victorious from a bruising vote on his flagship Rwanda migration policy, but the bitter divisions that risk turning his party into a "circus" mean any respite is likely to be short lived.

A day of high drama at Westminster on Tuesday culminated in a comfortable win for the government on Sunak's policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda after more than two dozen rebels in the party's right wing abstained in the vote.