Wednesday, July 2

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‘Tiny quantity’ of Afghan refugees with out everlasting properties as lodge deadline looms, minister says
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‘Tiny quantity’ of Afghan refugees with out everlasting properties as lodge deadline looms, minister says

A "very tiny number" of Afghan refugees are nonetheless with out everlasting properties two years after arriving within the UK, in accordance with the federal government.Veterans minister Johnny Mercer insisted "nobody is sleeping rough, nobody will sleep rough" when requested concerning the finish of the lodge section of the Afghan resettlement scheme this month. After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the British navy airlifted 1000's of individuals to security - and provided others refuge by way of two schemes.The majority of the 25,000 individuals who in the end arrived labored for the British authorities and the armed forces in Afghanistan, and so they initially lived in resorts.Mr Mercer at this time confirmed that "the vast majority of them are in set...
Nadine Dorries: Labour and Lib Dems hit marketing campaign path after MP resigns with parting shot at Sunak
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Nadine Dorries: Labour and Lib Dems hit marketing campaign path after MP resigns with parting shot at Sunak

Labour and the Liberal Democrats hit the marketing campaign path in Mid Bedfordshire within the hours after Nadine Dorries stood down.The former Conservative tradition secretary handed in her resignation yesterday - 11 weeks after she vowed to go - leaving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dealing with one more take a look at within the type of a by-election. In a fiery resignation letter, Ms Dorries accused the prime minister of "demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy" in opposition to her.Read extra: Nadine Dorries' resignation letter in fullThe letter, printed by the Mail on Sunday, went on to say Mr Sunak had deserted "the fundamental principles of Conservatism" and "history will not judge you kindly". Labour and the Liberal Democrats have wasted no...
Whole-life sentences will develop into ‘default’ for sexually motivated or sadistic murders, PM says
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Whole-life sentences will develop into ‘default’ for sexually motivated or sadistic murders, PM says

Whole-life jail sentences will develop into the "default" punishment for "sexual or sadistic" murders, the prime minister has mentioned.Former NHS neo-natal nurse Lucy Letby was informed she's going to by no means be launched on Monday after being convicted of murdering seven infants and making an attempt to kill six others on 18 August. She is just the fourth lady to be given a whole-life tariff in England and Wales. Sixty-six males are at present serving them in prisons and safe hospitals throughout the 2 nations.Read extra: The whole-life prisoners at present behind bars Image: Lucy Letby But the federal government says it plans to alter the regulation in order that "judges are required to impose whole-life...
Sadiq Khan accuses authorities of ‘weaponising air air pollution’forward of London ULEZ enlargement
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Sadiq Khan accuses authorities of ‘weaponising air air pollution’forward of London ULEZ enlargement

Sadiq Khan has accused the federal government of "weaponising air pollution" forward of the enlargement of London's ultra-low emission zone subsequent week.The mayor stated he was "disappointed" by the shortage of presidency assist for the coverage and its accompanying scrappage scheme. Transport Secretary Mark Harper has urged Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer to make his place on ULEZ "clear", saying in a letter: "You have the power to stop it."Read extra: Where the expanded Greater London ULEZ zone will cowlMr Harper prompt "Labour plan to use air pollution to attempt to justify bringing in pay per mile charging for every car in London". This has been denied by City Hall and referred to as "complete nonsense".Mr Khan stated: "It was this authorities that gave monetary assist t...
Gunshots at border as smugglers take goal at brokers
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Gunshots at border as smugglers take goal at brokers

Homeland Security has detected a number of cases of individuals armed with weapons sneaking into the U.S. from Mexico, together with one the place brokers making an attempt to arrest a bunch of unlawful immigrants got here beneath hearth twice. ...
Dorries’ resignation isn’t any political earthquake – however she has price the Tories one other secure seat by-election
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Dorries’ resignation isn’t any political earthquake – however she has price the Tories one other secure seat by-election

To Labour MPs and her detractors within the Conservative Party, she's "Mad Nad". To constituents livid with their absentee MP, she's "Dosser Dorries".But now - lastly - Nadine Dorries is giving up the tiresome chore of being an MP to develop into a full-time chat-show host, novelist, newspaper columnist and superstar. And she's not going quietly. Her brutal hit-job on Rishi Sunak in her resignation letter would not pull any punches. But after the injury her conduct previously few months has already inflicted on the Tory Party she'll win little sympathy from Tory MPs.Despite briefly serving in cupboard within the comparatively junior place of tradition secretary underneath her not-so-secret crush Boris Johnson, she's hardly one of many large beasts of the celebration or a cons...