Really not interested in Suella’s ranty letter but I DO want to see PM’s reply because we need to know exactly why he sacked her and what he was and wasn’t prepared to put up with, including the reckless and deliberate stoking of division and undermining the Police

Supreme Court Rwanda decision : we are unanimous that court of appeal was right ( to declare the Rwanda system unlawful ) .

via ⁦Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦⁩ in the Times diary

Quite extraordinary to watch these moron Tory MPs insist we need to leave the ECHR minutes after a court judgement which laid out, in detail, how that wouldn't even make a difference to the case.

This man is Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party. Is this a Government that believes in the rule of law or not? If it is, he needs to be sacked.

Once upon a time, the Tory deputy chair calling for the UK to scrap the rule of law would have been a resigning matter. Shit, it would have been considered unthinkable. That now seems laughably naive.

This is so dangerous and irresponsible. When parliamentarians - law makers, for goodness sake - say ‘ignore the law’ and that judges are ‘enemies of the people’ you are on a very slippery slope. We saw how that ended in the US on Jan 6

Lord Sumption on Liz Truss. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

Just come across Liz Truss saying “I hadn’t gone into politics to deal with floods or fix prisons.” Why not? Wouldn’t politics be much better if she felt her job was to fix such things? This is a fundamental problem with our system ⁦The Rest Is Politics⁩ unherd.com/2024/04/why-li…

A map of US time zones

The ministerial code says all announcements of new policy should be made to parliament first. Parliament is sitting today. Why is Sunak making his announcement on sick notes outside parliament? He’s breaking his own ministerial code.

Single biggest thing government could do to reduce number of economically inactive people who are long-term sick is sort out our mental health services. Two million people in England are on NHS mental health waiting lists. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

This is a disgraceful policy suggestion, which I suggest will be utterly unworkable in reality, and cause untold stress and grief for many if it does ever go ahead. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

✍️ 'I'm not writing you a sick note. If you were really ill you wouldn't have the stamina to get a GP appointment' My latest cartoon for tomorrow's The Telegraph Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com

"Pleased to see you looking so well your majesty. We need to discuss your return to work."

Much as I like to see the Tories in trouble, I don’t actually think MPs should be allowed to switch parties without resigning their seat. It breaks a contract with the voters (not to mention the activists who worked to get him elected).

Mail. Vile. See a problem. Find anything to make it worse. Populism at work. Now watch the populist bandwagoners leap aboard.

Wasn’t this completely predictable the moment he sacked the Greens? What else did he think would happen? Maybe I’m missing something…!

Seems like vanity of the worst sort. If Reinhart was truly offended by the artwork, then she’d ask for all the portraits to be removed, not just hers. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The BBC really ought to think before they write headlines - especially if they want stories to be take seriously: Swedish chef critical after attack near carnival bbc.com/news/articles/…