Excellent legal brief on the row between 🇮🇪&🇬🇧 over CTA by Steve Peers & Colin Murray

This looks like it's headed for a long court battle, while in the meantime people seeking to vindicate their right to claim asylum will continue to be used as political footballs by both sides.

Breaking on MSNBC: All the Truth Social and campaign website posts that Judge Merchan ruled violated his gag order have now been deleted.

Ugly moment for the Tory Chairman on whether they've accepted millions more from Frank Hester AFTER scandalous comments surfaced.

RH: 'I've got no problem answering questions on this.'
JC: 'Well, answer them then.'
RH: 'Any donations will be declared normally in due course.' ~AA

The common travel area row over return of asylum applicants is something new historically. It is the first time we see an Irish Government making demands of the UK in the immigration policy field.

So, the line from the UK Goverment on whether there is a migrant return agreement with Ireland is there is an 'understanding' consistent with the Common Travel Area but that it is not legally binding.
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The Common Travel Area policing operation, Operation Gull, means that for years Gardaí have been doing ‘papers please’ on buses & trains going north to south.

DUP & UUP have backed a motion to add a new EU law to the Windsor Framework. However this may be atypical as this particularly law is effectively EU convergence to a UK standard. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Really important thread on the root causes of the current Ireland-UK spat over immigration. You can read the High Court judgment in full here:

bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/…

It seem very poor judgment of a deputy party leader Ben Habib if he thinks his own ethnicity gives him a free pass to legitimise racial prejudice as banter. It is not something @richardtice would try - or get away with.

Assumes that the Rwanda policy is 'effective'. Many people would beg to differ.

Am already looking forward to 'this 20% swing against the Tories in a critical GE battleground is good for Sunak' takes.

If there was a causal relationship here, I'd have joined Hamas at university.

New from Free Movement: Briefing: Safety of Rwanda Act – what happens now? | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/briefing-safet…

I want to say something to the people with mental health conditions that have got in touch with me worried / panicked about the govt news on possible benefits changes... NOTHING HAS HAPPENED.

- The govt has put out a green paper. That is an EARLY STAGE consultation document.

House Dems make it official: If MTG tries to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, they will help block it >>>>

NEWS:

In his written order holding Trump in contempt, a Manhattan judge warns the former president that 'an incarceratory punishment' could follow for further violations.

Also: Trump must take down the nine posts by 2:15 p.m.

Ruling nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/pre…

✍🏾 My article on the flawed PIP system and the government’s hostile environment against disabled people.

politics.co.uk/mp-comment/202…

The Court recalls that, in its Order of 26 January 2024 in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), it noted that the military operation conducted by Israel following

Everything you always wanted to know about Voter ID (but were afraid to ask); A handy guide

For example did you know that student ID is 👎 but proof of age PASS card is 👍? Or that you can use a passport *even if expired*?

Please share far and wide. ~AA bestforbritain.org/confused_about…