Rishi Sunak has promised to introduce a requirement for new laws to be vetted to prevent further trade barriers being created in the Irish Sea. -Hannah McKay/PA Rishi Sunak has offered to sacrifice some of Britain’s Brexit freedoms in a bid to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland. The Prime Minister has promised to introduce … Read more
Migrants arrive in Britain after crossing the English Channel from France to Dover in Kent – Stuart Brock/Shutterstock More than 33,000 migrants risk deportation to Rwanda if flights take off, figures from the Ministry of the Interior showed on Tuesday. Some 33,085 asylum claims have been made since Rishi Sunak’s ‘stop the boats’ legislation became … Read more
The Prime Minister credited the “ruthless action” after the government announced it had achieved a target to clear the backlog of asylum applications. The Home Office said on Monday that Rishi Sunak’s “commitment to clear the legacy asylum backlog has been met” and that it had processed a total of more than 112,000 asylum cases … Read more
Starmer will win in such difficult circumstances it will feel like losing (PA Archive) The general election is on October 24 next year; Labor will win; and Keir Starmer’s honeymoon will be short. This week’s Peter Mandelson Memorial Dim Sum Supper (more on this later) didn’t yield any shocking predictions about the year ahead – … Read more
Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, has an article in The Sun saying Brexit was a vote of confidence in the country (PA Wire) We have not one but two articles from Conservative leadership candidates in the papers this morning. Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, has an article in The sun He said Brexit was a … Read more
Rishi Sunak’s premiership has been rocked by the resignation of Immigration Secretary Robert Jenrick, after the prime minister failed to appease right-wing Tories with his emergency legislation in Rwanda. Home Secretary James Cleverly unveiled a bill in the House of Commons to ‘disapply’ Britain’s Human Rights Act, in a bid to stop British judges from … Read more
Home Secretary James Cleverly has signed a new treaty with Rwanda in a bid to save Rishi Sunak’s thwarted deportation plan. A contingency plan B is also planned soon, as Mr Sunak tries to argue that Rwanda is a safe country to send migrants to following his government’s defeat at the High Court. Senior Tory … Read more