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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jess Glass

Top judge hits out at ‘unacceptable’ immigration remarks from Starmer and Badenoch at PMQs

The most senior judge in England and Wales said she has written to Sir Keir Starmer over last week’s Prime Minister’s Questions, telling reporters she was “deeply troubled”.

During PMQs last week, Sir Keir said a decision allowing a Palestinian family the right to remain in the UK after they applied through a scheme designed for Ukrainian refugees was “wrong” and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper had got her team “working on closing this loophole”.

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