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Party leaders grilled by public in election Question Time – experts dissect the key issues

In one of the last in a string of special election broadcasts, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labour leader Keir Starmer, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey and Scotland’s first minister, the SNP leader John Swinney, have faced questions from a live audience on BBC Question Time.

The Conversation · Jun 20, 2024

Met police ‘using human rights laws to block trooping the colour protest’

Anti-monarchy group to challenge ’Kafkaesque’ move by force over Saturday’s event to mark king’s birthday

The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2024

Tax cuts, help to buy and stamp duty: Key takeaways from the Conservatives’ general election manifesto

Rishi Sunak claimed his party are the only ones ‘with the big ideas to make our country a better place to live”.

The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2024

Reform’s legal challenge to Labour tax raid on private schools can’t work because of Brexit, says expert

Reform UK leader Richard Tice wants to challenge Labour’s plans to end private school tax exemptions in the courts, but his support for Brexit may have prevented him from going ahead

The Independent UK · May 29, 2024

Top Rights Court Rejects Former Georgia President's Case

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday rejected appeals of criminal convictions by Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili, finding the trials in his home country had been fair.

International Business Times · May 23, 2024

Caster Semenya continues court fight to race without lowering testosterone levels

Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya arrived at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg on Wednesday for a hearing to decide whether she will have to lower her testosterone levels in order to compete in races.

Radio France Internationale · May 15, 2024

Human Rights: The Case for the Defence by Shami Chakrabarti review – freedoms fighter treads a fine line

The Labour peer and former Liberty director makes a clear, impassioned case for human rights law, but steers surprisingly clear of thorny political arguments

The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2024

OPINION - The Conservatives are reaching terminal velocity in their flight from sanity

The real Conservative plot is a subversive struggle against reality. In last Thursday’s elections, the Tories lost 397 seats and Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens gained a total of 394; in Blackpool South, the by-election swing from the Conservatives to Labour was more than 20 per cent for…

Evening Standard · May 7, 2024

Italy can reclaim 2,000-year-old Greek statue from Getty Museum, court rules

European court of human rights rejects appeal by US trust over lifesize Victorious Youth statue discovered in 1964

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2024

Rishi Sunak has staked his premiership on Rwanda – but the electorate will punish him for it

As David Cameron learned to his cost over Brexit, voters don’t judge politicians on policy, they judge on results, says Henry Hill of ConservativeHome

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2024