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Veteran backbench MP admired as a skilful tactician who served as the chair of the parliamentary Labour party in the 1990s

The Guardian - UK

Conservative MPs turn to the Lords for AI policy

Spare a thought for the Conservative Party, which is rapidly haemorrhaging top talent. A report in the Guardian last week found the so-called natural party of government is set to lose nearly 1,000 years of Commons expertise after 66 experienced MPs announced plans to step down at the next election.

Evening Standard

Former supreme court judges say UK arming Israel breaches international law

More than 600 prominent lawyers sign letter that calls for end to exports as a ‘measure to prevent’ genocide

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Dining across the divide: ‘The Lords needs reform – people shouldn’t just be put there by Boris Johnson’

One wants to fix the second chamber. The other would scrap it and bring in the ‘Danish system’. Can they meet halfway?

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser rapped for himself breaking a parliamentary rule

Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser has been rapped for himself breaking a parliamentary rule.

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak insists Rwanda flights will be ready

But PM won’t say if migrants will go on RAF or commercial planes

Evening Standard

F1 CEO Domenicali 'arrogant' for not engaging in sportswashing dialogue

The assessment comes from UK peer Paul Scriven, a Liberal Democrat, during a House of Lords sportswashing debate held in the chamber on Thursday. He says it was prompted by Domenicali failing to engage.

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F1 CEO Domenicali 'arrogant' for not engaging in sportswashing dialogue - UK peer

The assessment comes from UK peer Paul Scriven, a Liberal Democrat, during a House of Lords sports-washing debate held in the chamber on Thursday. He says it was prompted by Domenicali failing to engage.

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Few want it, and even fewer think it will succeed. So why in the world is Sunak clinging to the Rwanda policy?

Huge costs, mounting opposition, negligible impacts: nothing about this absurd asylum bill appears to make any sense, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda bill likely to be stalled at least till April after seven defeats in the Lords

Peers voted for numerous amendments making it improbable the legislation will return to the Commons this side of Easter

The Guardian - UK

Why has UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda been delayed again?

House of Lords deals blow to ruling Conservatives’ ‘stop the boats’ policy.

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Lady Henig obituary

Historian and deputy speaker of the Lords who chaired the Security Industry Authority

The Guardian - UK

Lord Tomlinson obituary

Last parliamentary private secretary to Harold Wilson, whose political career spanned six decades

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s government would ban the very boycotts that helped to end apartheid

A bill now in the Lords is intended to protect Israel from any criticism. It goes further than Thatcher ever did when she tried to stop us protesting to free Nelson Mandela, says former government minister Peter Hain

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Rwanda bill could become law without independent scrutiny, says ex-watchdog

David Neal says government failed to publish his report on conditions for asylum seekers in east Africa country

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: Jeremy Hunt hints at October election – as it happened

Chancellor says date would allow a spending review to be carried out in time for next April

The Guardian - UK

MPs vote to throw out amendments to Rwanda deportation bill

All 10 amendments made by peers voted down, giving much-needed boost to beleaguered PM

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak aims to get Rwanda deportation flights to take off from Britain within weeks

But a bill to allow the flights is yet to clear Parliament

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Telegraph takeover: UK plans law to stop foreign ownership of newspapers

New legislation could thwart planned £600m purchase of media group by UAE-backed consortium

Evening Standard

Minister defends plan to pay thousands for migrants to go to Rwanda voluntarily

Labour says ministers are admitting defeat on their controversial deportation plan

The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s record on appointing female peers from party worst since Major, analysis finds

Unlock Democracy report notes that path to gender equality in Lords has slowed in recent years

The Guardian - UK

Justin Welby says he carries personal alarm amid increasing threats in church

Archbishop says there has been hate speech and ‘enormous’ rise in abusive language against bishops, particularly female ones

International Business Times

UK Rwanda Migrants Bill Set For Parliamentary 'Ping-pong'

Controversial plans to send migrants from the UK to Rwanda will return to the House of Commons this month after parliament's upper chamber recommended several changes to the scheme, the government announced on Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

The Lords have pulled apart the cruel and Orwellian Rwanda bill – yet still, the Tories press on

Behind the parliamentary ping-pong are tens of thousands of refugees, left in perilous limbo by a broken system, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda deportation bill set back again after House of Lords votes

Rishi Sunak’s bill was opposed in 10 votes by peers, two days after five amendments were forced through

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