Priti Patel delaying Daniel Morgan report to ‘protect friends’ at Murdoch’s News International

Home secretary Priti Patel has been accused of delaying the publication of a report into the murder of Daniel Morgan to protect friends at Rupert Murdoch’s News International. Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for the Rhondda was granted an urgent question in the Commons on Monday “on the failure to publish the Independent Panel Report […]

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

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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Government’s ‘cynical timing’ of £4bn sale of UK defence company ‘to avoid scrutiny’

The government has been accused of “cynically timing” the announcement of the £4 billion sale of a UK defence and aerospace company to a US private equity firm “to avoid scrutiny”. The deal had been delayed over national security concerns but business secretary Andrea Leadsom released a statement just before 10pm on Friday night approving […]

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