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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The center-right lawmaker whose new party is riding so high in polls ahead of next week’s Dutch election that he could become a kingmaker in coalition talks said Thursday that he has fundamental […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch as James Cleverly addresses the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and National Police Chiefs Council joint summit on Thursday, 16 November, after the government’s Rwanda deportation policy was ruled unlawful. It […] More
James Cleverly said he “doesn’t recognise” a claim he called the Rwanda deportation scheme “batshit.”Yvette Cooper suggested the new home secretary never personally believed in the plan as she questioned him in the Commons about what ministers will do now the Supreme Court has ruled it unlawful.“He distanced himself from it and his predecessor’s language on it. He may even on occasion have privately called it ‘batshit’,” Ms Cooper added.Mr Cleverly told Sky News: “I don’t recognise that phrase… the Rwanda scheme is an important part, but only a part, of the range of responses we have to illegal migration.” More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Spain’s acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is expected to be chosen by a majority of legislators to form a new government in a parliamentary vote Thursday. The vote comes at the end of […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email James Cleverly has promised a treaty with Rwanda to save the government’s failed asylum plan will be published “within days, not weeks” – but he refused to say when the first migrants would […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email David Cameron has visited Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine in his first overseas trip as foreign secretary. The former prime minister joked about his “disagreements” with Boris Johnson, but said support for the Ukrainian […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The House of Commons is voting on the King’s Speech on Wednesday, which was delivered by His Majesty King Charles III last week and laid out the legislative agenda the Conservative government plans […] More
Protesters disrupted Yvette Cooper’s speech in the House of Commons as she spoke about the Israel-Hamas conflict on Wednesday, 15 November.A group of around five or six people were removed from the public gallery after holding up “Ceasefire now” signs during the King’s Speech debate.Doorkeepers approached the group and removed them from the public gallery.Extinction Rebellion (XR) claimed responsibility for the protest.It comes as Labour MPs were due to be subject to a three-line whip to abstain on the SNP’s amendment to the King’s Speech calling for a ceasefire. More
