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Fury in Lords at ‘constitutional outrage’ used to pass police protest powers

14 June 202314 January 2024Joe Cahal0

Members of the House of Lords expressed their “outrage” and fury as the government fended off attempts to block new controversial measures over the right to protest. Peers slammed the “underhand” methods of ministers to pass new police powers by using “regulations” denouncing the tactic “as an absolute fundamental constitutional outrage.” Despite the levels of […]

Johnson’s Brexit Britain goes nuclear with measures ‘that’d make a dictator blush’

17 March 202119 January 2024Joe Cahal0

Boris Johnson has unveiled his blueprint to get Brexit-Britain “match-fit” for its future, laying out his government’s foreign policy to the very same chamber debating his alarming plans to curb democratic rights with a draconian crack down on protests. Taking back control it seems, actually means taking fundamental democratic rights from British citizens while sticking […]

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Fury in Lords at ‘constitutional outrage’ used to pass police protest powers

Johnson’s Brexit Britain goes nuclear with measures ‘that’d make a dictator blush’

NHS waiting lists fall is due to surging excess deaths

Northern Ireland talks extension signals hope for Assembly return

Mark Drakeford quits as Wales’ first minister

Five-point plan to cut immigration threatens families and the NHS

Emergency Rwanda bill threatens to split Tory Party further

It’s a ‘myth’ to believe voters don’t want another EU referendum, says Curtice

Shoppers pay price of food suppliers’ profiteering, says watchdog

Sunak is ‘lost in La-La land with the reverse Midas touch’

Experts ‘extremely alarmed’ by detection of ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

Senior doctors pay deal with government leaves RCN ‘appalled’