Tag: Priti Patel

Priti Patel fills vacant security minister role responsible for oversight of Covid fraud; Labour calls for Elliot’s removal as Tory co-chair

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Home secretary Priti Patel’s permanent appointment as security minister “is a clear sign” the government has little concern for the safety of citizens, claims Labour. Patel fills the vacant security minister post –the most senior role outside cabinet – and will take on 17 responsibilities, as listed on the government’s website, that include: economic crime, […]

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Priti Patel urged to relax immigration rules with HGV driver-shortage crisis predicted to worsen

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A shortage of HGV drivers is threatening supermarket supplies with firms warning some shelves may be empty for months to come unless the government acts to address the labour shortage. Councils across the UK have also been forced to suspend waste collection services due to a lack of drivers with the Environmental Services Association (ESA) […]

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Hancock and Patel referred to SFO; Test and Trace lose 600 million tests and Javid’s back as health secretary

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Matt Hancock and Priti Patel have been referred to the Serious Fraud Office for their roles in awarding PPE contracts. The prime minister’s longstanding advisor Munira Mirza has also been referred to the SFO along with the home secretary and former health secretary by the Good Law Project They claim to “have uncovered evidence that […]

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Boris Johnson backs Matt Hancock amid calls for M15 to investigate security breach

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The prime minister has backed his health secretary over revelations Matt Hancock breached Covid rules by kissing his aide. Boris Johnson’s spokesperson said the PM “considers the matter closed” after Hancock apologised for breaching social distancing rules after the Sun published images of Hancock embracing Gina Coladangelo. The PM’s spokesperson declined to comment as to […]

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Priti Patel delaying Daniel Morgan report to ‘protect friends’ at Murdoch’s News International

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Home secretary Priti Patel has been accused of delaying the publication of a report into the murder of Daniel Morgan to protect friends at Rupert Murdoch’s News International. Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for the Rhondda was granted an urgent question in the Commons on Monday “on the failure to publish the Independent Panel Report […]

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Former chief constable warns Britain is moving towards ‘paramilitary policing’

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A former chief constable has warned Britain is “dangerously” edging towards the type of  “paramilitary policing” linked to “repressive regimes”. Michael Barton, who was chief of Durham police and the Crime Operations lead for the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said ministers are “flexing their muscles via their police forces”. He and Sir Peter Fahy, another […]

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Arrests at anti-lockdown protests; summer blow for ‘average holidaymakers’

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Thousands of anti-lockdown protestors defied the government and Covid restrictions to take to London’s streets today, with at least 33 arrested by the Metropolitan Police after “ugly clashes”. Huge protests in Manchester passed without any arrests reported though the city centre was brought to a standstill by demonstrators against the new policing bill, violence against […]

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Johnson’s Brexit Britain goes nuclear with measures ‘that’d make a dictator blush’

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Boris Johnson has unveiled his blueprint to get Brexit-Britain “match-fit” for its future, laying out his government’s foreign policy to the very same chamber debating his alarming plans to curb democratic rights with a draconian crack down on protests. Taking back control it seems, actually means taking fundamental democratic rights from British citizens while sticking […]

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‘Deeply disturbing’ – Met police criticised for clashes at Sarah Everard vigil

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The Metropolitan Police has been criticised for “grabbing and manhandling” women at a vigil in memory of Sarah Everard following clashes with mourners and protestors at London’s Clapham Common. Scuffles broke out when officers tried to remove speakers from a bandstand covered with floral tributes for the 33-year-old at what had been a peaceful vigil, […]

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