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Ex-Security Advisor Warns Whitehall Lacks Expertise To Deal With China

24 Nov Defence

Lord Ricketts, the UK's former national security advisor, believes there is not enough institutional knowledge in Whitehall to support Prime Minister Keir Starmer's pursuit of a more "pragmatic" relationship with China.

13 Nov Education

Criminal Exploitation Of Children Rises By 55 Per Cent In Two Years, Data Suggests

12 Nov Home affairs

MPs Urged To Be "Wary" Of Mobile Phone Theft Near Parliament

24 Oct Home affairs

New Report Urges Government To Overhaul Asylum Seeker Accommodation System

18 Oct Home affairs

Non-League Teams Fear New Anti-Terror Law Could Be Too Costly To Follow

13 Oct Home affairs

Labour MP Praises Theresa May For Bringing Modern Slavery To "Centre" Of Political Debate

07 Oct Home affairs

Keir Starmer Says Middle East Must "Step Back From The Brink" On 7 October Anniversary

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12 Nov Home affairs

With digital ID, we can take back control

18 Oct Foreign affairs

My call to widen family reunion rights for refugees

08 Oct Home affairs

The anniversary of the IRA ceasefire must be a moment to remember – not rewrite – a painful history

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Labour MPs Push For "Healthier" Parliament By Tightening Alcohol Sales And Creating More Natural Light

25 Nov Parliament

Kim Leadbeater On Assisted Dying: "I Came Into Politics To Make A Difference"

23 Nov Health

Labour MP Calls For Electoral Reform After "Most Disproportionate" General Election Result Ever

25 Nov Political parties

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27 Sep Communities

Jonathan Ashworth: 'Nobody likes losing an election. It's a kick in the knackers'

A key figure in Gordon Brown’s No 10, and a shadow cabinet minister under Keir Starmer’s Labour opposition, Jonathan Ashworth tells Tali Fraser about his plans as chief executive of influential think tank Labour Together.

08 Aug Communities

Middlesbrough MP Says "Rampant Inequality" Opened The Way For Violent Riots

The Labour MP for Middlesbrough has said that a legacy of “rampant inequality” opened the way for “terrible behaviours and abuse” to take hold in Teesside.

17 Jul Environment

Growth, Railways And Energy Focus Of Labour Government's First King's Speech

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has set out 40 pieces of legislation the Labour Government will aim to deliver in his first King's Speech.

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07 Sep 2020 Foreign affairs

Britain's moral duty to end people trafficking

Ending illegal Channel crossings will require long-term strategy and global leadership.

07 Sep 2020 Home affairs

The Immigration Bill provides an opportunity to end ‘inhumane’ indefinite detention

Immigration detention should be a last resort, yet the Government detains thousands of people a year for months on end. We have tabled amendments to the Immigration Bill to impose a 28-day time limit.

07 Sep 2020 Home affairs

New appointments this week in UK politics, the civil service and public affairs

Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.

06 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Exclusive: The Lib Dems Have Urged The Attorney General To Intervene Over Priti Patel’s "Activist Lawyer" Tweet

The Liberal Democrats have written to cabinet ministers urging them to condemn the home secretary Priti Patel for claiming “activist lawyers” were preventing the removal of migrants in the Channel.

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03 Sep 2020 Home affairs

New guidance calls for retailers to do more to help disabled customers

In response to growing concerns over the accessibility of supermarkets and retailers, Britain’s equality body has published new guidance to help the industry better assist disabled customers during the pandemic.

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03 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Give couples more freedom to choose where they marry, Law Commission proposes

As the experience of couples wanting to get married during the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, the laws governing how and where couples can marry are outdated and unnecessarily restrictive.

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02 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Safety review report must not become just ‘another door stop’

Findings must halt rising number of assaults on frontline officers.

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02 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Reforms to UK’s antiquated spying laws published by Law Commission

Reform is needed to bring the law into the 21st century and protect the United Kingdom from espionage (spying) and unauthorised disclosures (leaks), according to a report from the Law Commission that has been laid in Parliament this week.

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01 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Home Secretary Priti Patel gives exclusive interview to POLICE magazine

Priti Patel has emphasised her strong commitment to policing in an exclusive interview with the Police Federation of England and Wales.

31 Aug 2020 Home affairs

New appointments this week in UK politics, the civil service and public affairs

Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.

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30 Aug 2020 Coronavirus

EHRC statement on government's campaign to encourage workers back to offices

Caroline Waters, Interim Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said:

28 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Home Office ditches controversial video claiming ‘activist lawyers’ are protecting asylum seekers after backlash

The Home Office’s top civil servant has ordered the removal of a controversial video dismissing people providing legal representation for asylum seekers as “activist lawyers”.

27 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Home Office under fire for ‘point-scoring’ swipe at ‘activist’ immigration lawyers

The Home Office has been accused of “political point-scoring” over a video claiming that “activist lawyers” are disrupting the return of asylum seekers.

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27 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Military personnel must be held accountable for crimes committed overseas, warns human rights body

The Government should withdraw plans that could make it more difficult to hold UK military personnel to account for crimes, including torture and ill-treatment, committed overseas, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has said.

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27 Aug 2020 Home affairs

PFEW appalled by 31 per cent rise in Emergency Service Worker assaults

National Vice Chair describes year-on-year figures as ‘totally unacceptable’

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26 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Crime reduction figures offer false sense of security

More police officers needed as PFEW warns the drop in recorded crime is temporary

25 Aug 2020 Home affairs

This government is yet again attempting to scapegoat migrants for their own mismanagement

We should have no time for criminals exploiting desperate refugees, but nor should we for a government that refuses to see the bigger picture and take the obvious steps to prevent this exploitation.

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21 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Criminal legal aid support announced today “desperately needed and long overdue” says Bar Council

In response to the MoJ’s announcement this morning of money for the legal aid sector, Chair of the Bar Council, Amanda Pinto QC, said:

21 Aug 2020 Home affairs

A proportional voting system is the first step in fixing our broken democracy

The Tories won just 44% of the vote in 2019, but effectively hold 100% of power in the Commons. That’s not democracy, it's fundamental illegitimacy – and the lack of trust that flows from it – is at the root of our broken system.

21 Aug 2020 Brexit

Britain ‘hands EU draft free trade agreement’ in bid to break Brexit deadlock

British negotiators have sought to break the deadlock over the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the European Union by submitting a draft free trade agreement, it has been reported.

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20 Aug 2020 Economy

The road to effective truck cargo screening technology

Leidos are looking forward to keeping pace with the evolution of cargo screening as we help safeguard travel and trade across ports and borders.

20 Aug 2020 Coronavirus

Boris Johnson praises ‘remarkable courage’ of Manchester Arena families as bomber’s brother jailed for at least 55 years

Boris Johnson has paid tribute to the “remarkable courage and dignity” shown by those who lost loved ones in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing as the killer’s brother was jailed for at least 55 years.

19 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Home Secretary Priti Patel urged to drop 'toxic' asylum policy after death of 16-year-old boy in English Channel

MPs and charities have urged Home Secretary Priti Patel to take urgent action following the death of a 16-year-old boy in the English Channel.

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19 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Letter sent to chiefs urging forces to share BWV footage

Federation takes action to protect officers and police service from damaging social media clips.

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