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  • Tory rebellion grows as Liz Truss, Priti Patel and Iain Duncan Smith to REJECT Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal

    Storm(ont) clouds

    Rishi Sunak is facing down a growing mutiny on his backbenches as Liz Truss, Priti Patel and Sir Iain Duncan Smith are all set to vote against his Brexit deal for Northern Ireland. The former prime minister, ex-home secretary and previous Tory leader have said they will not support Sunak’s agreement negiotiated with the EU [...]

  • Under the pump: Priti Patel among 29 MPs to back call for fuel pricing watchdog

    fair fuel?

    Priti Patel has joined almost 30 other colleagues in calling for a pump pricing watchdog to tackle the soaring fuel costs for motorists. The former home secretary signed a letter backing FairFuelUK’s call for an oversight body and commissioner to keep prices down, which is also supported by Dame Andrea Leadsom. This comes as motoring [...]

  • Government’s Rwanda deportation plans for asylum seekers are legal, High Court rules

    breaking

    Government plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful, the High Court has ruled. Several challenges were brought against the proposals announced by then-home secretary Priti Patel in April, which she described as a “world-first agreement” with the east African nation in a bid to deter migrants from crossing the Channel. The first deportation [...]

  • Travellers to the UK will answer ‘suitability questions’ and undergo ‘automated border screening’ in new immigration plans

    July 21, 2022

    Travellers to the UK will need to answer a set of “suitability questions” and have “automated border screening” without speaking to border force agents as part of the Home Office’s new immigration plans. Home Secretary Priti Patel set out the plans today as part of the country’s new “contactless” digital border.  The Permission to Travel [...]

  • Met Police names Commissioner to replace Dame Cressida Dick while force is in special measures

    July 8, 2022

    Former counter-terrorism chief Sir Mark Rowley has been appointed as the new Metropolitan Police Chief. The move comes after the resignation of former top officer Dame Cressida Dick, and the force being put into special measures over its failings. The Met was in particular criticised over the death of Sarah Everard, who was kidnapped raped [...]

  • Priti Patel lashes out against ‘scandalous’ ECHR decision blocking Rwanda migrant flight

    June 18, 2022

    Priti Patel has lashed out against the “scandalous” European Court of Human Rights after it grounded the government’s first deportation flight to Rwanda. Speaking toThe Daily Telegraph, the home secretary said: “The opaque way this court has operated is absolutely scandalous. That needs to be questioned.” “They’ve not used this ruling previously, which does make you [...]

  • ‘Appalling’: Prince Charles slams government’s Rwanda deportations

    June 11, 2022

    “Appalling”: this is how Prince Charles has described the government’s plan to deport illegal UK migrants to Rwanda. The Prince of Wales, the Times first reported, lambasted the Home Office’s policy in private and said he feared it would overshadow this month’s Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, which he is to attend. “He said he [...]

  • Humiliating setback for Priti Patel as government is forced to delay deportation flights to Rwanda

    May 19, 2022

    The Government has been forced to delay its first deportation flights to Rwanda after campaigners lodged a legal campaign against the controversial policy. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said last weekend that 50 asylum seekers have already been told they are due to be flown to the East African nation within a fortnight, which would be [...]

  • Police get free reign as Priti Patel permanently lifts all restrictions on use of stop-and-search powers

    May 16, 2022

    Home Secretary Priti Patel confirmed she is planning to permanently lift restrictions placed on police in the use of stop-and-search powers as part of the Government’s strategy to tackle violent crime. In a letter to police forces on Monday, Patel announced the easing of conditions on the use of the tactics under Section 60 of [...]

  • Priti Patel looks to crack down on ‘criminal and disruptive guerrilla tactics’ of groups like XR, Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil

    May 11, 2022

    Priti Patel is looking to end “criminal, disruptive and self-defeating guerrilla tactics” of environmental activists, including those who glue themselves to roads in protest of fossil fuels. The Home Secretary made the Public Order Bill announcement in the Queen’s Speech, which will try to stop “relentless reoffending and significant disruption by a selfish minority of [...]

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