Misley Mandarin with an update from the resettlement camp on the Chagos Islands.
According to Keir Starmer these people are trespassers who the government are not helping and want to remove.
Unlike the arrivals in small boats who appear to be welcomed with open arms - four-star hotel rooms, spending money and mobile phones.
@YvetteCooperMP@SDoughtyMP
I am deeply honoured to have been elected last night as the Leader of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council.
This is a new chapter for Newcastle-under-Lyme, and we are getting straight to work.
I was incredibly proud to stand on stage at #UKREiiF today alongside Hull and East Yorkshire Mayor Luke Campbell and Humber Freeport Chair Finbarr Dowling to launch the new Humber Freeport Investment Prospectus.
Working together across the estuary, we spoke with one powerful, unified voice.
We are unlocking 600 hectares of prime development land to target £3bn in investment and create 5,000 high-quality jobs over the next decade. Greater Lincolnshire’s South Bank, including our world-class ports in Immingham, is right at the heart of this vision. Backed by the Freeport’s £25m seed capital fund, we are supercharging advanced manufacturing, scaling logistics, and opening new doors for international trade.
Greater Lincolnshire is the backbone of the UK, we are open for business, and we are 100% focused on securing real results for our people.
Jake Berry: “What I think is extraordinary about this by-election, is you have ‘Robert Jenkins’, a brilliant candidate for Reform…”
Victoria Derbyshire: “That’s not his name by the way”
Jake Berry: “Sorry?”
Victoria Derbyshire: “It’s Robert Kenyon”
#newsnight
NEW: Andy Burnham confirms to ITV he wants to rejoin the EU in future
But he says he doesn’t want to advocate that at this by-election (presumably because it’s a very pro-Leave seat)
“In the long-term there is a case for that, but I'm not advocating that in this by-election”
As a father of a child with SEND, I know how important it is every child gets the support they need to thrive.
Reform is needed, but as the King’s Speech sets out changes to the system, we must make sure we get this right for families.
This piece from Rory Bremner shows exactly why: https://t.co/jWYO3W1Jkp
EXCLUSIVE SHORT FILM: The real story of the first phase of the Resettlement of the Chagos Islands. WATCH behind the scenes footage of Misley Mandarin and fellow Chagossians returning home and how Starmer’s border force hindered the resupply operation. The resettlement mission will continue…
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Bradford matters.
Demographically, it is the youngest city in Europe.
The scene of the worst sectarian riots in Britain this century.
Under Labour, it became a test-bed for a policy of multiculturalism which insisted all cultures and languages were of equal value. That policy has been a disaster for a city which, 150 years ago, was one of England's most prosperous.
More than anywhere else in Britain, Bradford exemplifies the incompatibility of 'Baradari' kinship networks with Western freedoms. It is why the city has the highest incidence of first-cousin marriage in the UK, with the worst rates of birth abnormalities, as a result.
It was where, in 1989, a novel written by Salman Rushdie - and deemed 'blasphemous' by Iran - was publicly burned by a mob outside the city hall. It was a seminal moment: when the British State chose not to stand up for the right to offend.
Bradford is a city where the white working class has been routinely ignored, caricatured as racist and pushed into ever-shrinking ethnic enclaves.
Labour deserved to lose power in Bradford.
The pity is that they didn't lose it decades ago.
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