BREAKING: Middlesbrough FC chairman Steve Gibson backs Labour's Chris McEwan and launched a scathing attack on Ben Houchen accusing the Tees Valley mayor of 'giving away our children's future'

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Look at Penny Mordaunt's face as Oliver Dowden rants on about Andy Street who has built 43 Social Houses in 6 years, and Lord Houchen who sold £110,000,000 of land to his mates for £100.

She knows the ship is going down.

#PMQs

Powerful words from Aziz Abu Sarah in his TED Talks conversation with מעוז معوز Maoz, harnessed days later by Israeli peace activists on streets of Tel Aviv.
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👀 List of Tories supporting one of the key amendments to water down the Renters Reform Bill. What does the (R) by names mean? Registered interests. Looks like landlords turning out in force to scupper a bill that was meant to protect renters' interests, not their own finances

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Mothers try to identify loved ones at the mass graveyard that was once Nasser Hospital in Khan-Younis, Southern Gaza 🇵🇸

The UN reports 310 bodies discovered, some with their hands tied.

If humanitarian laws mean anything, The Hague must take action.

Someone pinch me, Julia Hartley Brewer has said something sensible 😲

JHB, 'You would leave asylum seekers to drown in the channel?'

Ben Habib, 'Absolutely'

JHB, 'That is not a policy that a civilised country should endorse'

BH, 'Why is that uncivilised?'

JHB, 'Because we

Best for Britain Anushka Asthana Peston Bloody hell. So the Rwanda scheme goes ahead because Cameron was too weak to face down the europhobes in his party.
He shouldn't be anywhere near politics. Never should have been.

David Cameron blames the Rwanda plan on Brexit.

Says a returns agreement with France is 'not available at the moment'. 🤦‍♂️

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Today is Serco Group's AGM.

Serco make HUGE profits from running detention centres - which cause immense harm to women seeking safety.

Bad for business, bad for humanity #SercoAndProud ?

✍️Urge Serco to do the right thing: actionnetwork.org/letters/serco-…

You MUST Listen to this from the very much missed
Mark Carney our ex BoE chief.
Warning about Populist rhetoric based on his experience in UK #BrexitLies
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After 35 years of privatisation Thames Water and Southern Water lack complete maps of sewage networks.

They have no idea of repairs or investment needed.

How much sewage dumped from networks not mapped?

Regulators failed.

Must end privatisation scam.
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The #RwandaPlan was originally part of 'Operation Save Big Dog', designed to shift media & public focus away from Boris Johnson & #Partygate .

There is NO evidence to suggest the Rwanda plan will deter people travelling across the Channel to seek asylum.

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The Govt’s new law declares that #Rwanda is safe. However, both the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution & the Joint Committee on Human Rights have maintained that the safety of Rwanda is a matter for the courts, not parliament, to decide.

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The union representing senior civil servants has warned that it might take legal action against the government if civil servants are required by ministers to breach international law.

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Under international law, the government is bound to follow an order of the European Court of Human Rights ( #ECHR ).

It would be unlawful for a person to be sent to #Rwanda in violation of an order of the European court.

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However, this course of action is complicated by the fact that civil servants have been directed to ignore injunctions from the European Court of Human Rights ( #ECHR ) unless a minister says otherwise.

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If their removal is still upheld, a person might take the last-resort step of applying to the European Court of Human Rights ( #ECHR ) for an interim order blocking their deportation.

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If the Home Office upholds its decision, a person can challenge their removal in court.

Despite there being little money available for essential public services, Sunak has said there are 150 judges and 25 courtrooms ready to hear these legal challenges.

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Charities have also been preparing to support asylum seekers to challenge their removal to #Rwanda .

We can expect to see several types of legal action in the coming weeks.

#Rwanda NotInMyName

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