During a heated debate on the upcoming rail strikes, shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh accused the secretary of state Grant Shapps of “acting directly from P&O’s playbook” in trying to replace striking rail staff with agency staff. Shapps criticised Labour and its leader Keir Starmer on the lack of clarity of their position on the…
In a statement to the House of Commons, home secretary Priti Patel told MPs that she remains “committed” to the policy to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda when they illegally enter the UK despite the European Court of Human Rights halting the flight. Labour’s Yvette Cooper accused the home secretary of knowing “she didn’t have…
Former Conservative party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, has blasted the “legal farce” of the ECHR following an eleventh hour intervention by human rights judges to ground the UK government’s initial deportation flight to Rwanda. Referring to the situation as “ridiculous”, the former work and pensions secretary told LBC Radio: “This has turned into a…
In the opposition debate on the sale of Channel 4, culture secretary Nadine Dorries vowed to protect Channel 4’s “public service broadcasting remit” as the government aims to “unleash Channel 4’s full potential”. Dorries promised a white paper that would “allow broadcasters to flourish”. Labour’s Lucy Powell shared her concern that a Channel 4 sale…
In Tuesday afternoon’s opposition day debate on passport delays, home minister Kevin Foster accused Labour of focusing on the “party political”. Shadow minister Stephen Kinnock, who started the debate, told the House of Commons that the government “failed to plan and inevitably failed to deliver” on a surge in demand for passports this year. Foster…
At the beginning of Tuesday’s business in the House of Commons, speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle made a statement on the 40th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War. Hoyle paid tribute to 255 British military personnel and 3 Falkland Islanders who lost their lives. MPs will hold a ceremony at St. Margaret’s church after…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has praised the UK jobs market as “robust” following fresh employment figures. The new figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of pay-rolled UK workers rose by a further 90,000 (0.3 per cent) between April and May to 29.6 million. While unemployment rate climbed from 3.7…
In an urgent question, Stuart C. McDonald of the SNP asked home minister Tom Pursglove to give a statement on the planned removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda, with McDonald labelling the scheme “state sponsored trafficking and transportation”. Pursglove rejected this “offensive” characterisation, underlining that the scheme complies “fully with our legal and international obligations”.…
To send refugees who have made their way to the UK to Rwanda is inhuman, shallow, expensive, and counterproductive. What is the problem that Rwanda is a solution to? It can’t be that the government wants to deter refugees coming here on account of there being too many. After all, the UK’s island status means…
