Brexit
Sky News
The Brexit Bill will return to the House of Commons next week, after the Lords suggested 15 amendments to it. Tory chief whip Julian Smith sent a letter to his Conservative colleagues announcing the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill will be coming back to the Commons on 12 June.
Times
Theresa May has a week to forge a compromise with Tory rebels over Brexit after she tabled votes on key legislation for next Tuesday. The 12 backbenchers are threatening to inflict a defeat in a vote on future customs arrangements. They believe that the government will put forward its own compromise agreement within days but claim it is unlikely to be enough to buy them off. The Tories could team up with opposition MPs to inflict the defeat next week. The government has still failed to come up with its own customs plan because of divisions in the cabinet.The rebels believe there will be other opportunities to defeat the government in the coming week.
Independent
Theresa May will seek to overturn all 15 Lords defeats on her flagship Brexitlegislation in a single dramatic day next week, putting her authority on the line. MPs have been warned they will be voting into the early hours of Wednesday morning when the EU withdrawal bill finally returns to the Commons next Tuesday, after weeks of delay. Key controversies including leaving the EU customs union and single market, the Irish border and parliament’s power if the government’s exit deal is rejected will all be up for grabs. However, the decision to try to ram through 15 votes in a single sitting – on all the crucial Brexit issues – immediately drew fierce criticism from Labour.
EU
Express
AN MEP has accused Brussels of exacerbating the Irish border issue in order to “lock” the UK into the EU in a bid to gain an upper hand in trade negotiations and threaten the UK’s prosperity post-Brexit.Both the EU and British Government are committed to maintaining an open border following Brexit in order to avoid an escalation of tensions, but the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier recently rejected both of Theresa May’s proposed customs models, the ‘customs partnership’ and the ‘maximum facilitation’ option.
Telegraph
George Soros, the billionaire financier and champion of liberal values in Europe, has warned that the disintegration of the European Union is “no longer a figure of speech” but has become a “harsh reality”.With populist governments in Italy, Hungary and Poland now in open revolt against western EU values – not to mention the leading anti-immigration SDS party comfortably topping the polls in the Slovenian election over the weekend – there are fears that Brussels is now under siege.Here we look at the mounting political challenges facing Europe and ask if the centre can continue to hold.
Express
BRUSSELS has warned Britain it will block it from ‘rolling over’ existing trade deals with other countries in the latest row to hit Brexit negotiations. The European Union has said it will not support the UK in maintaining the same trade terms unless there is a deal on the Irish border. The latest dramatic twist comes as pressure mounts on Theresa May to secure a breakthrough in the long-running negotiations before a crunch summit later this month.
Independent
Sajid Javid has warned the European Union that it would be “wrong and reckless” to weaken security ties with the UK after Brexit. Pointing to splits in the EU, the home secretary said most European ministers do not support the “hard line” approach taken by Brussels on security cooperation, as they rely heavily on British intelligence to thwart terror attacks. Mr Javid said the European Commission wanted to treat the UK as a “third country” but many of his counterparts have told him privately that they oppose such a move.Security has become a key factor in the Brexit talks, as questions marks hang over the UK’s future use of vital crime-fighting tools such as the European Arrest Warrant, and Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency, both of which have been highlighted by senior police and counter-terror figures.
Bercow
Guardian
John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, will not be investigated by the standards watchdog over allegations that he described the cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom as a “stupid woman”. The Conservative MP James Duddridge, a long-standing critic of Bercow, had called for the standards commissioner to secure video and audio footage of the alleged incident in the Commons chamber last month before it was destroyed. However, Kathryn Stone, the commissioner, is prevented from investigating the alleged conduct because under parliamentary rules it is the Speaker’s responsibility to rule on behaviour in the chamber. Bercow has sought to defuse the row by admitting he muttered the word “stupid” during a disagreement with the leader of the house about the timetabling of legislation, but denied insulting her personally. He offered no apology and insisted he would “continue to speak out firmly” for the interests of the Commons.
Foreign aid
Express
HUNDREDS of millions of pounds of British aid money is not necessarily focused enough on reducing poverty, MPs have warned. Schemes to boost China’s film industry and improve the superpower’s museums were highlighted by the House of Common’s International Development Committee as it called for a review of programmes. The Government has committed to spending increasing amounts of aid though other departments, to harness their expertise and networks.The MPs said there were doubts over the transparency and priorities of cross-government funds which spent £601million of the aid budget in 2016-17. Some charities suspect project choices are more driven by a desire to boost trade ahead of Brexit than to help the world’s poorest, they heard.
Heathrow
Sky News
Details of plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport are expected to be set out later today. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling will clarify plans for the west London hub at a meeting of the Cabinet’s economic sub-committee on Tuesday morning, Sky News understands. The details will then be discussed by Theresa May’s full Cabinet, which meets at 9.30am. If the plan receives the Cabinet’s backing, the transport secretary will likely update the House of Commons. MPs will then vote on the plan no later than 21 sitting days after its publication.
BBC News
Senior ministers will gather in Downing Street this morning to approve what amounts to outline planning permission for a third runway at Heathrow Airport. The economic sub-committee, chaired by Theresa May, is expected to sign off the expansion plan, and then send it for approval by the full cabinet. If backed, MPs would then be asked to vote on the issue in the coming weeks. The government has backed expansion in principle despite opposition from key figures such as Boris Johnson. If the plan is backed by the cabinet, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling could come forward with the statement later this week, possibly immediately, the BBC’s Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg said. It has to be voted upon no later than 21 sitting days after its publication.
Abortion
Independent
Theresa May is under mounting pressure to lift Northern Ireland’s abortion ban after MPs were granted an emergency debate on the issue. House of Commons Speaker John Bercow approved Labour MP Stella Creasy‘s request for the debate, which will take place on Tuesday. It adds to pressure on the prime minister following calls from her own MPs for reform of the law. Around 30 Conservatives stood in support of Ms Creasy’s request, including ministers Penny Mordaunt, the international development secretary, who also holds the women and equalities brief, and Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley.
Sky News
MPs will debate reforming abortion laws in Northern Ireland, where a termination is tantamount to murder. After the Republic of Ireland voted at the end of May to repeal lawsbanning abortion, Labour’s Stella Creasy called on Monday for an emergency debate over repealing a similar law north of the border. With hundreds of MPs from across the political spectrum showing their support on Monday evening, Speaker John Bercow granted the debate, which will happen on Tuesday lunchtime for three hours. From the Tory front bench, Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley, Women and Equalities Minister Penny Mordaunt and Environment Secretary Michael Gove notably indicated their support for the debate.
Health
Times
A woman told she had terminal breast cancer has been “cured” by a groundbreaking treatment that used her white blood cells to destroy the tumours. Scientists extracted her T-cells to establish which were attacking the tumours, then grew billions more in a lab and put them back in her body. At the American Society for Clinical Oncology (Asco) annual conference in Chicago, the results, published in the journal Nature Medicine, were hailed as “a paradigm shift”. It is the first time the treatment has been successful for late-stage breast cancer, although the technique has been used for blood cancers and melanoma. Judy Perkins, 52, from Florida, was told she had weeks or months to live.
Mail
A woman given months to live after all treatments for her breast cancerfailed has been completely cured by a breakthrough injection. Judy Perkins had tumors the size of plums in her liver after cancer spread through her body, and had made a ‘bucket list’ of places to visit before she died. But, after seven types of chemotherapy failed, the 52-year-old’s tumors were totally destroyed by her own white blood cells. Perkins has now been cancer free for two years, thanks to a revolutionary immunotherapy treatment administered by the National Institutes of Health, a new study reveals. It is a world first in using the treatment, called adoptive cell transfer’, to successfully treat breast cancer and is hoped to be available for a wider group of patients within five years.
How’s this for insanity!
“Arrested For Calling Someone A MAN In The U.K”
https://youtu.be/FPQdUw7l-To
‘British woman arrested by MET for saying “have a gay day”.’
https://youtu.be/evnGeOFr1nI
It is more than insanity; it is outright war and the police are the vanguard for the cowardly politicians who are selling us out at every opportunity.
There is something under the surface that is quite disturbing about the second video, have watched it a couple of times before. Very unpleasant. I think in part it is the mixture of her age, the decor and personal effects followed by a quite a ‘rough’ handled arrest for what seems to be a political crime.
UKIP Daily should do an article and a kit on how to handle being arrested, what to do, what to say, what not to say and how to get reasonable quality legal representation. Your rights in a cell in a police station. In fact UKIP membership should come with free legal representation insurance and a 24 hour hot line. A bit like the AA RAC, resue service. Also a heap deal on body cams. UKIP needs to practical as well as ‘political’. A UKIP tab with a phone number for the key ring that sort of thing. UKIP membership would be boosted if there were these additional benefits.
Pointless resisting arrest although in this case as its recorded it makes a powerful message.
Here it is Chris from the excellent Robert Henderson. This is what we’ve come to when perfectly respectable people need to learn all this.
https://englandcalling.wordpress.com/what-to-do-if-you-become-involved-with-the-criminal-law/
Thanks Mike for this it answers many of my questions,
just to clear up any potential misunderstanding, I am not respectable.
“Time served in custody counts as time served if you receive a prison sentence.”
no longer the case it seems, it is now up to the court to decide
Thank you Mike, a bit lengthy but a précis will be going on my phone once I have had a thorough read of it. Probably a good idea for all of us in these troubling times.
Would that be an attempt to harmonise with Continental Corpus Juris?.
I
d be sure they dont have any truck with that sort of nonsense, goes along with trials without juries doesn`t it?Hi Mr Newland, Thank you for that link to Robert Henderson’s valuable blog. It looks like it may be very informative, but two questions arise: first, is Robert Henderson a lawyer? If not, with what authority does he write? Secondly, his advice is dated 27 April 2011. Given the rapidity with which the law changes, how can we be sure that it is still up-to-date?
It’s a useful general guide not by a lawyer true but do you know of a better one? Perhaps someone who is a lawyer can provide one.
If I can add to my wish list, a request not a criticism, please can UKIP Daily have a section called “resources” where helpful information like this is organised and accessible.
Yes having read a lot of it, would be reassured if one of the people who have “friends” that are barristers could get them to give their opinion on how to respond to the police and remaining all reserved and no comment. I like to have more than one source of information on something like this. There are even police high up in UKIP. can they advise ? Or are they just a picture on the UKIP important persons website.
It may have been in there, but it did not seem to cover clearly all the basic rights you have in a police station. Access to writing material, wash stuff ? I really don’t know.
The idea is to have an army of secret watchers. Sooner or later everyone or anyone can be arrested and criminalised since if the people are watched closely enough they will ‘slip up’ saying something which viciously oppressive laws can catch. Thus everyone lives in fear of the slip up which wrecks their life removes their livelihood and positions them for further examination and persecution as a ‘known offender’.
This system was superbly developed in East Germany and it’s coming here. The next stage will be to recruit an army of civilians to add to the paid watchers. There have already been plenty of hints about it over several years. Every workplace will be the first target. The recruits will be encouraged to bust with pride about their importance.
The leader of East Germany at the time of the collapse was put on trial. He said “We tried to create a paradise and failed”,
Ever ready to move with the times I have written in offering me services……
I’m old enough to remember when gay meant happy.
Sad.
http://conservativefighters.com/news/obama-admin-changed-faa-hiring-process-to-prioritize-diversity-over-airline-safety/
In a nutshell the FAA used to draw air traffic controllers from a programme which included people with aviation, military experience, people who were training to become air traffic controllers.
Even though they were short of air traffic controllers the B Obama administration halted that programme and later on introduced a new recruitment process based on a biographical assessment where the designers stated it would not get the best candidates. It has been reported it was a process which prioritised looks over skills. Some of those wise to that new recruitment metric apparently also cheated on their applications, presumably ticking boxes falsely. It seems to date those in the FAA who designed and introduced the biographical metric are somewhat hesitant in talking to journalists about the programme.
The UK government has pushed skewed programmes across the board in recruitment and application processes. The new army advert covered by Tommy Robinson, university admissions, public sector jobs, parliamentary candidate short lists and more recently pushes to change the mix of top NHS workers including surgeons.
The army is now reported undergoing a change in the words its uses to comply with a programme introduced by what the regulars call the JEDI. Is this the end of the usage “chaps” in the army, but dragging 77 year old veterans out of their homes for extended interrogations and court procedures on cases they were exonerated more than 40 years earlier (sometimes no jury and sometimes in camera) is excuse the pun warranted.
At least the US has Trump; all we have is feckless May who goes on TV to wish the invader a happy Ramadan, Eid and Haj pilgrimage.
and PM T May also feels no sense of irony in phone call-attacking President Trump on behalf of the UK and the EU (!!) over tariffs when the USA has an 800 billion dollar trade deficit ?