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Talking Point: What do you think of plans to remove rules restricting police use of stop and search?

Home Secretary Priti Patel is easing restrictions on when police can employ controversial stop and search tactics to take weapons off the streets.

Evening Standard

Tory minister admits 'I need another coffee' after stats struggle in awkward interview

Rachel Maclean was grilled over changes to stop-and-search powers by her boss Priti Patel - and gave the wrong figures before saying she didn't have them in front of her

Daily Mirror

Priti Patel set to give herself more powers to ‘intervene’ in policing

Proposed changes to protocol governing home secretary’s powers would ‘lower threshold’ for intervention

The Independent UK

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Priti Patel at centre of stop and search ‘Section 60’ row

Thousands of knives have been taken off London’s streets in the past four years by methods including stop and search, the Met announced on Monday as a row broke out over a decision by Priti Patel to ease some curbs on the power.

Evening Standard

‘Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan won’t stop us crossing’ — inside the migrant crisis escalating in the Channel

Critics deem it expensive and counter-productive — but is the Government’s new scheme even workable? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard

Home Office minister struggles to answer questions about stop-and-search changes

Rachel Maclean admitted she did not have a briefing paper in front of her for the interview.

The Independent UK

Priti Patel lifts restrictions on controversial police stop-and-search powers

Stop-and-search powers are disproportionately used against black communities. In the year to March 2021, black people were 7x more likely to be stopped and searched than white people.

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Priti Patel makes it easier for police to use controversial stop and search powers

Home secretary says it will be ‘easier for officers to use these powers to seize more weapons, arrest more suspects and save more lives’

The Independent UK

Priti Patel lifts restrictions on police stop and search powers

Home secretary announces the end of limitations on use of section 60 powers where serious violence anticipated

The Guardian - UK

Home Secretary permanently lifts restrictions on police stop-and-search powers

More officers can now authorise the tactics when they anticipate serious violence ‘may’ occur, and the measures can be in force for longer.

The Independent UK

Priti Patel accused of ‘power grab’ over new policing proposals

Exclusive: chief constables and commissioners criticise plans to make it easier for home secretary to intervene

The Guardian - UK

Disrupting a Conservative dinner will not help asylum seekers

Letter: White, often middle class, activists are applauded for media stunts while migrant voices go unheard, writes Katya Sharifi-Nia

The Guardian - UK

Home secretary Priti Patel overrode legal advice in asylum cases, adding to record costs

Exclusive: Home office sources say Priti Patel overrode legal advice that cases would fail, pushing up rising legal bills

The Independent UK

Protestors ambush Kwasi Kwarteng at business lunch over energy crisis

Protestors disrupted a business lunch Kwasi Kwarteng was having on Friday just a week after invading a Tory dinner during Priti Patel’s speech.

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Daily Record

SNP accused of 'sheer hypocrisy' over Fergus Ewing bullying claims probe

Nicola Sturgeon's Government is declining to reveal the outcome of the case, but her party demanded transparency over Tory bullying claims

Daily Mirror

Sadiq Khan sets up new body to look at whether cannabis should be decriminalised

The London mayor has set up a Drugs Commission to look at whether laws on cannabis are effective - but that provoked a furious response from Priti Patel as he has no power to change them

The Independent UK

Priti Patel rebukes Khan over plans to consider legalising cannabis

Home Secretary Priti Patel said London mayor Sadiq Khan’s time would ‘be better spent’ focusing on tackling crime in the capital

The Independent UK

Patel rebukes Khan over plans to consider legalising cannabis

Home Secretary Priti Patel said London mayor Sadiq Khan’s time would ‘be better spent’ focusing on tackling crime in the capital.

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Wales Online

We'll continue our disruptive protests, Extinction Rebellion vows

Climate change protesters insist Government will not stop their activities and announce plans for new action from September

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gove causes havoc on breakfast TV – but at least he’s not Priti Patel

While the Govester airs his silly voices on news media, the home secretary picks a vicious fight in the Commons

Evening Standard

Extinction Rebellion threaten to send ‘millions of people on to the streets’ after government crackdown

The Public Order Bill seeks to outlaw tactics in England and Wales such as protesters “locking on” to public transport infrastructure or gluing themselves to roads

The Independent UK

Patel accuses Labour of defending foreign murderers and paedophiles coming to UK

The Home Secretary detailed plans to overhaul human rights law.

The National (Scotland)

Tory MP tells Priti Patel to back chain gang punishment for climate protesters

PRITI Patel has not ruled out putting environmental protesters to work in chain gangs as punishment for disruptive tactics.

The Independent UK

Minister refuses to rule out that Ukrainian refugees could be deported to Rwanda

Tom Pursglove also indicates Afghans who served with British Army could face removal under policy

The Independent UK

Home Office unable to show evidence Rwanda policy will cut Channel crossings

The minister for tackling illegal immigration described it as an ‘untested policy’.

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