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Civil servants in court challenge over Rwanda law
The government argues the act, passed last week, does not breach the law or the civil service code. -
Donation to Welsh first minister should be probed, says Rishi Sunak
via ft.comBut motions criticising Vaughan Gething are defeated in the Cardiff Senedd -
Trade unions warn Labour to honour pledges to boost UK workers’ rights
via ft.comPromise of hostile reaction to any dilution of ‘New Deal’ as party prepares to water down proposed reforms -
Police should probe hacking 'cover up' - Brown
Gordon Brown believes his phone may have been hacked while he was PM and is considering legal action. -
Reform UK backs candidates who promoted online conspiracy theories
Party stands by members set to contest key seats who have claimed climate crisis does not exist and Islamophobia is ‘made up’Reform UK has chosen to stand by candidates who have promoted conspiracy theories online, called the climate emergency “make-believe” and expressed vaccine-sceptic views.Those fringe views, and more, were put forward by a group of seven candidates selected to stand for the rightwing populist party at the next general election – including sever -
Labour’s ‘new deal for workers’ will not fully ban zero-hours contracts
Exclusive: Revised proposals will allow employees to choose a zero-hour option, prompting fears of undue pressure from employersLabour is facing criticism over plans for a loophole that would allow employees to work under zero-hours contracts, despite the party having pledged to ban them entirely.Keir Starmer’s party is preparing to announce details of its promise to overhaul workers’ rights if it gets into power – a centrepiece of its early plans for government, but subject to -
Civil servants mount court challenge over Rwanda law
The government argues the Act, passed last week, does not breach the law or the civil service code. -
Lone children at risk of deportation to Rwanda after being classified as adults, says charity
Refugee Council sounds warning after children wrongly issued with notices of intent by Home OfficeUK politics – latest updatesLone child asylum seekers are at risk of being sent to Rwanda because the Home Office has wrongly classified some as adults, it has been claimed.The Refugee Council, which works with these children, has warned of the risk after more than a dozen of the children it works with were wrongly issued with notices of intent for Rwanda. Continue reading... -
Sadiq Khan calls Tories unpatriotic for ‘trying to do London down’
Exclusive: Mayor says Conservative government has put obstacles in his way each day of his eight years in officeSadiq Khan has called the Conservatives’ treatment of London “unpatriotic” as he accused the government of putting obstacles in his way every day of his eight years running the capital.The London mayor accused the Tories of “trying to do us down” at every opportunity for political reasons in long-running battles over police funding, cuts to London’s -
Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s local-elections day of reckoning – cartoon
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UK ministers acknowledge detention of asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda
Dozens of detentions have taken place across UK, say sources, as move prompts demonstrations around countryUK ministers have acknowledged for the first time that they are detaining asylum seekers to be removed to Rwanda, prompting demonstrations outside Home Office buildings.Nationwide operations began this week to detain adult men and women, with more activity due to be carried out over the next 11 weeks leading up to a one-way flight to east Africa. Continue reading... -
The Guardian view on policy and propaganda: desperate Tories are blurring the line | Editorial
Since Rishi Sunak obviously has nothing left to do but campaign, he should call a general electionIn the weeks immediately preceding an election, government resources are not meant to be deployed for party political campaigns. The convention – commonly called “purdah” but officially described as the “pre-election period of sensitivity” – is not an enforceable prohibition. It relies on deference to democratic protocol and an intuitive sense of what constitutes -
Donation to Wales leader Vaughan Gething should be investigated, says Rishi Sunak
via ft.comUK prime minister’s call for probe comes ahead of vote in Welsh parliament into cash gift -
Scotland’s government survives no-confidence vote
via ft.comSeventy MSPs vote against Labour leader Anas Sarwar’s motion, with 58 voting in favour -
Sunak rules out asylum seeker returns from Ireland
The Irish government can not "cherry-pick" its promises about the border with Northern Ireland, the PM warns. -
Forbes and Swinney hold talks about SNP leadership
The two former SNP ministers are considering bids to succeed Humza Yousaf as first minister. -
‘This is cleansing’: Dublin sends in police and buses to dismantle tent city
Shocked people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria herded on to coaches as 200 tents removed and streets cleanedThe convoy arrived just after sunrise: a stream of police vehicles, council trucks, mounted cranes and coaches, ready to dismantle a tent city of migrants and refugees in the heart of Dublin that had become too big, too visible, too political.They fenced off streets and herded shocked, sleepy men from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and other countries on to buses and began to extirpate -
Electile dysfunction causes outbreak of performance politics in Commons | John Crace
The government was determined to make this a good news day. It’s just a shame reality isn’t more obligingThere’s something about the proximity of an election that sends MPs into a tailspin. Especially if they know their party will be taking a hammering. Otherwise moderately intelligent men and women – people who, on a good day, can be relied upon to dress themselves – stand up to make fools of themselves by professing undying loyalty to a lost cause. Generally, by i -
Scotland’s SNP government wins no confidence vote called by Labour – as it happened
Scottish government wins vote by 70 votes to 58, with no abstentions after debate where Humza Yousaf defended government’s recordLabour has accused Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, of championing single-sex spaces as part of a “culture war”.Speaking about the initiative announced by Badenoch this morning (see 10.10am), Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secreary, told Times Radio this morning:[Badenoch] does love nothing more than a culture war. And it is so transpa -
UK Home Office detains asylum seekers destined for Rwanda
via ft.comEnforcement officers launch ‘large-scale’ operation in anticipation of first removals to central African country -
Belarus firm accused of bypassing UK sanctions
MP claims a garage door parts company is getting round import bans imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. -
PM calls for independent probe into Gething donation
Vaughan Gething will face votes on his controversial campaign donations in the Senedd on Wednesday. -
What are Thursday's elections and how can I vote?
Voters in parts of England will elect councillors, mayors and police commissioners in May. -
Coming 5 May: Politics Weekly Westminster – an extra podcast episode to get your political fix
The Guardian’s political editor, Pippa Crerar, and the political correspondent Kiran Stacey help you kick off your week with the stories you need to know from inside WestminsterSubscribe on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts Continue reading... -
‘Voting is not on their radar’: lowest turnout predicted in poorest areas
Only about a third of voters are expected to vote in Thursday’s polls but that could fall to as low as 13% in some placesUK politics – latest updatesFrom a shopfront in Tilbury, Essex, community worker Yewande Kannike is wrestling with a paradox at the heart of this week’s English local elections: the most deprived people who could most benefit from political reform are least likely to vote.Across England only about a third of voters are expected to cast a ballot in Thursday&rs -
Mayoral elections mark milestone for English devolution
via ft.comCandidates and voters prioritise local issues over national party politics ahead of Thursday vote -
Ireland breaks up asylum seeker ‘shantytown’ amid dispute with UK
via ft.comTent city emerged after Dublin ceased offering housing to single individuals and sought to return migrants to Britain -
PM: UK won't accept returns of migrants from Ireland
DUP MP Carla Lockhart used her question at PMQs to ask about the Irish border. -
'Workable offer' for Gaza ceasefire says PM
SNP questions Sunak over Gaza. -
PMQs: Leaders clash over National Insurance plans
Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak clashed over each other's economic policies during PMQs. -
Take it from a psychologist: Rishi Sunak's callous crusade on welfare will have disastrous consequences | Jay Watts
Targeting people who need support for depression and anxiety will only make these growing problems worseJay Watts is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and senior lecturer working in LondonWhen does crude electioneering become a threat to public health? Rishi Sunak’s and Mel Stride’s relentless attack on disabled people, with a specific targeting of mental health claimants, will have damaging and potentially deadly consequences. Those of us working in acute psychiatric wards an -
‘Narrow and negative’: how Susan Hall’s London mayor bid could be a harbinger for Tories’ future
Hall’s campaign has focused on cars and crime while the opposition has exploited her tendency to ‘shoot from the hip’Paul Icely puffs out his cheeks – and then slowly exhales. He is visibly deflating. “I thought there might be a few more of us,” the 67-year-old black-cab driver admits, his eyes darting between the students milling outside Barking and Dagenham college. “You seen anyone else?” Icely asks Lisa Prager, 40, as she limps towards him with -
The second coming of Ed Miliband
via ft.comLabour’s shadow energy secretary could be among the most powerful — and radical — of Starmer’s close allies -
Failed asylum seeker given £3,000 to go to Rwanda
The asylum seeker went to the east Africa country under a scheme separate to the forced returns scheme. -
Andy Street and Ben Houchen turn to Boris Johnson in mayoral election run-in
Incumbents promote messages of support from ex-PM despite largely avoiding linking themselves with wider Tory partyUK politics – latest updatesAndy Street and Ben Houchen go into Thursday’s mayoral elections having run campaigns almost entirely separate from the Conservative party they represent.But this week the respective high-profile Tory mayors for the West Midlands and Tees Valley have associated themselves with one senior Conservative whose endorsement they appear to relish: th -
I’ve been restricted from voting my whole life – I can’t bear to see apathy disenfranchising my friends | Joyce Yang
As someone who is unable to vote in the UK’s local elections, I hope my peers don’t waste the precious gift they’ve been givenLocal elections are coming this week. After receiving far-right leaflets (“Close the borders! Pause all immigration!”) through my letterbox and paying taxes to an underwhelming council, I can’t wait to vote – except that I’m not eligible. As an immigrant with no settled status, voting isn’t one of my rights.And while m -
As it happened: Pensions and tax dominate PMQs ahead of local elections
Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer clash in the Commons on the last day of campaigning before polls in England and Wales. -
Badenoch claims girls developed UTIs due to lack of single-sex toilets at school
Equalities minister claims female pupils didn’t want to use gender-neutral toilets and calls for people to report institutionsKemi Badenoch has claimed that girls at a school who did not have access to single-sex toilets developed urinary tract infections (UTI) because they did not want to use gender-neutral toilets.The equalities minister has launched a call for input, asking people to report public bodies that fail to provide single-sex spaces or have policies not in accordance with the -
London mayoralty contest may be tighter than polls suggest
via ft.comHow local election results will play out; plus, Sunak will be anxious to hear if Tory incumbent Andy Street clinches West Midlands -
Forbes and Swinney meet for SNP leadership talks
SNP leadership favourites John Swinney and Kate Forbes have yet to announce they are running for the top job. -
On challenges big and small, our leaders haven’t learned that nationalism is not the answer | Rafael Behr
Brexit and Scottish independence have benefited Rishi Sunak and Humza Yousaf – now both are suffering the consequencesBrexit isn’t working, and there are potholes everywhere. Those are not equivalent challenges. Fresh asphalt heals cracked carriageways in an afternoon. Repairing a fractured continental alliance is the work of a generation. One problem did not cause the other. But they are on the vast continuum of political failure – from global to local – that coincides w -
Why can't I vote online in UK elections?
Experts consider when UK voters might be permitted to vote in elections online. -
Labour set to unveil weakened package of workers’ rights
via ft.comShadow ministers have been discussing how to tone down some of pledges in ‘New Deal’ to ease employer misgivings -
Investment arm of UK international development plans to boost Africa spending
via ft.comNick O’Donohoe says British International Investment ‘needs to be stepping forward’ as it eyes renewable energy sector -
Can I be fired for menopausal symptoms?
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Chris Mason: What to watch out for in the local elections
The BBC's political editor breaks down what this week's local elections will mean for national politics.
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