In the video clip, Cleverly, who is running to be leader of the opposition Conservative party, said:
Over 700 people arrived illegally in small boats to the UK yesterday. Two people tragically lost their lives.
Labour said they would smash the gangs. Instead, what they did was remove the Rwanda partnership, which was a deterrent to the people smugglers, claim to create a border command force which still does not exist and does not have any leadership, [and] undermine the work of immigration enforcement, the National Crime Agency and Border Force.
Their rhetoric encouraged people smugglers, and the tragic consequences are now clear for all of us to see. They need to reverse this poor early decision making and get a grip on our border controls.
demanded to know when there would be arrests related to a violent incident at Manchester airport
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) issued an operational update listing 77 people in England and Wales who had been charged between Friday evening and Monday morning
A rapper who posted a video online accusing Tommy Robinson of calling on people to attack mosques has appeared in court, pleading not guilty to a charge of conveying information which was known to be false. A man who grabbed a police officer’s baton and ran off with it during disorder in Plymouth has been jailed for three years. A 12-year-old boy has admitted throwing a missile at a police van and taking part in two separate incidents of disorder in Manchester
Unions in Scotland have called off proposed industrial action by cleansing workers to allow members to vote on an improved paydeal
Disgraced former prime minister Boris Johnson has reportedly been courted for an executive role with the Daily Telegraph by a potential bidder for the newspaper group
Councils and public bodies in England are to be handed powers to compulsorily buy cheap green belt land as part of the new Labour government’s drive to build 1.5m homes by 2030
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Daily Telegraph by a potential bidder for the newspaper group.
Johnson has reportedly been sounded out by Nadhim Zahawi, the ex-Conservative chancellor, who has approached a number of wealthy backers about assembling a potential bid for the Telegraph newspapers and Spectator magazine.
Zahawi has held preliminary, informal talks and raised the idea of Johnson becoming the Telegraph’s global editor-in-chief with investors if a bid is successful – although there is no firm agreement in place and there are no formal talks, according to Sky News.
Johnson currently writes a column for the Daily Mail although he has longstanding links with the Telegraph where he began his career as the Telegraph’s star Brussels correspondent – writing exaggerated stories about EU regulations – before returning to the UK to be a political columnist and enter politics.
In June 2023 Johnson stood down immediately as a Conservative MP after an investigation into the Partygate scandal found he misled parliament and recommended a lengthy suspension from the House of Commons.
Read more here: Boris Johnson ‘courted for Telegraph role’ as Nadhim Zahawi plots bid
Labour reverse what he said was “poor early decision making” and claimed that “their rhetoric encouraged people smugglers”.
In the video clip, Cleverly, who is running to be leader of the opposition Conservative party, said:
Over 700 people arrived illegally in small boats to the UK yesterday. Two people tragically lost their lives.
Labour said they would smash the gangs. Instead, what they did was remove the Rwanda partnership, which was a deterrent to the people smugglers, claim to create a border command force which still does not exist and does not have any leadership, [and] undermine the work of immigration enforcement, the National Crime Agency and Border Force.
Their rhetoric encouraged people smugglers, and the tragic consequences are now clear for all of us to see. They need to reverse this poor early decision making and get a grip on our border controls.
Labour government had sent “the wrong signal” in cancelling the previous government’s failed attempts to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
A Downing Street spokesperson said “We’ve been very clear in the weeks leading up to the summer that we know the summer is a challenging time, and we expect to see increases before we see improvements.”
On social media Reform UK MP Lee Anderson, days after far-right anti-immigrant violence saw rioters trying to torch places where asylum seekers were staying with people inside, claimed the latest figures showed “our useless PM is literally giving our country away to the third world.”
Labour government’s drive to build 1.5m homes by 2030.
Green belt landowners who are unwilling to sell would face compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) that would force them to hand over their land if the site could host a “quality housing scheme” in the public interest.
Under the proposed rules, which are being consulted on, these landowners could be forced to sell at a benchmark value that the government has said will provide “fair but not excessive return” for the landowner, as well as “maximising community benefits”.
The proposals come two weeks after the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, set out wide-reaching planning and housing policy reforms aimed at accelerating housebuilding.
Read more here: English councils to gain new powers to buy cheap green belt land
Source: theguardian.com
