πΈ Thousands turn out for an anti-racism rally in Glasgow, with speakers including Aamer Anwar, Holly Bruce, Iris Duane and Susie McCabe addressing the crowd
Did no one ask to see the paper trail? Who's job is it to have oversight of these decisions? To audit trail the process? Who else has failed their diplomatic vetting but taken up a post regardless?
#StinksToHighHeaven
BREAKING: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says it was "unforgivable" that he wasn't told that former U.S. ambassador Peter Mandelson failed security vetting, stressing no minister was told
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This suggests that due process allows for vetting decisions to be overruled...is that the case for all MP and Ambassador roles? Who else has been allowed through the net?
BREAKING: The prime minister hasn't misled parliament by saying that "due process" was followed when appointing Peter Mandelson as US ambassador to the UK, a key minister tells Sky News.
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He was arrested because he shared paperwork.
Not because he abused women and girls. Not because he knew that women and girls were trafficked and prostituted and did nothing to stop it, but because he shared documents.
There has to be more to come.
The look of man who, for the first time in his coddled 66 years of life, just had the briefest of glimpses of the real world.
Plenty more where that came from I sincerely hope.
1 July 1889 | Jewish man, Isak Sussholz, was born in Halych (then Austro-Hungarian Empire, today Ukraine). He emigrated to Belgium.
He was deported to #Auschwitz form Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 18 August 1942. He did not survive.
I want to hear chants for life & peace not for death. But the audience werenβt supporting evil Hamas. People feel powerless & ashamed of their UK Government and its #Gaza record.
70+ Gazans killed today. I wish the PM sounded as outraged about Gaza as he does about Glastonbury.
BREAKING: Avon and Somerset Police have launched a criminal investigation into Bob Vylan and Kneecap's Glastonbury sets
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29 June 1871. Trade Union Act was passed. It gave trade unions legal status for the 1st time. Under its terms no trade union could be regarded as criminal for ordering strikes and trade union funds were now legally protected from government confiscation.