UK charges pro-Palestine protester behind divisive ‘coconut’ placard Marieha Hussain has been charged with a racially aggravated offence after mocking PM Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman. Al Jazeera · May 21, 2024
Move to extend police powers around protests in England unlawful, High Court rules REGULATIONS which lowered the threshold for police intervening in protests in England were unlawful, the High Court has ruled. The National (Scotland) · May 21, 2024
Theresa May mocks Liz Truss and Boris Johnson at parliamentary lunch The former PM has had a humour upgrade Evening Standard · May 17, 2024
The Tories deserve to be abandoned by voters Letters: Dr Sebastian Kraemer, John Boaler and Sue Pryce-Jones respond to Justine Greening’s article on why the public has turned away from the party The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2024
Man faces jail for violent racist threat to ex-Home Secretary Suella Braverman Mark Davies, 52, from Brighton, threatened the politician on X, formerly Twitter Evening Standard · May 15, 2024
When Suella Braverman lectures Labour on child poverty, something is very wrong If even the Tory right-winger sees political capital in opposing the two-child benefit cap, Keir Starmer needs to think again, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2024
Braverman plan to criminalise rough sleeping dropped after Tory criticism Proposal, condemned by homelessness charities as dehumanising, had provoked threats of revolt among MPs The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2024
‘We had money! It was brilliant!’ Margaret Hodge on Labour governments, life as a migrant and quitting as an MP After 30 years in parliament, the former minister will stand down at the next election. She talks about her battles with Jeremy Corbyn, her fury at Priti Patel and Suella Braverman, and the awfulness of austerity The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2024
‘I know the adrenaline of escaping’: Henry Cockburn on turning his time on the run into a refugee rap epic His Costa-shortlisted first book examined his own schizophrenia, from hospital breakouts to hiding from the police. Now the writer has fed this into Tale of Ahmed, a story in rap verse about a boy fleeing Afghanistan for Britain The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2024
Are you better with apostrophes than a Yorkshire database? – quiz Possession, contractions, plurals – test your ability to use an apostrophe in our fun and completely pedantic quiz The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2024
Tories must face hard truths: Reform-lite wreckers like Braverman are why the public just don’t like us The PM has danced to their tune and the dreadful election results were the inevitable outcome. The solution can’t be more of the same, says the former Conservative MP Justine Greening The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2024
Monday briefing: Local election catastrophe for the Conservatives In today’s newsletter: Rishi Sunak’s party were expecting a difficult contest – but the results were even more dire than predicted, as political correspondent Kiran Stacey explains The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2024
Little sign that Sunak will tack towards centre after local elections rout PM and allies seemingly intent on staying the course in face of conflicting calls on how to avoid wipeout when country goes to polls The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2024
Labour to target south of England at general election, campaign chief says Pat McFadden says local election results give the party confidence it can win ‘blue wall’ seats that are ‘turning red’ The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2024
The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2024 Rishi Sunak to face pressure to shift right after disastrous election results Suella Braverman says Conservative party will be lucky to have any MPs unless it adopts harder line on immigration and rights
Evening Standard · May 5, 2024 Tory rebel Braverman urges Sunak to change course after election blows The senior Tory urged the Prime Minister to move to the right in response to the poll defeats.
The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2024 Suella Braverman says no time to oust Sunak so he must ‘own this and fix it’ Former home secretary says PM’s ‘plan is not working’ and he needs to change course after local elections drubbing
The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2024 Braverman tells Sunak to ‘own’ dismal election results and ‘fix it’ but says it’s too late for Tories to change leader – as it happened Former home secretary says Tory voters are ‘on strike’ and are ‘not coming out to support us’ in wake of dire local and mayoral election results
The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2024 Home Office considered antisemitism campaigner for counter-extremism unit Gideon Falter was in running to be adviser but government’s antisemitism tsar warned against appointment
The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2024 Braverman dropping Windrush measures was unlawful, court told Then home secretary’s decision in January 2023 to drop pledges was discriminatory, high court hears
The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2024 Sunak and his cabinet think one packed Rwanda flight will save them. It won’t After last night’s vote, they want a ‘proof of concept’ journey to get the tawdry policy back on track. But it’s too flawed for that, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council
The Guardian - UK · Apr 22, 2024 The tortuous journey of the UK government’s Rwanda plan Key dates in the Conservatives’ struggle to push through their policy of processing asylum seekers in a third country
The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2024 Met chief likely to survive calls to quit over officer’s ‘openly Jewish’ comment Mark Rowley believed to still enjoy confidence of home secretary and mayor of London after incident at pro-Palestine protest
The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2024 NatCon conference resumes after Brussels court overturns closure order Belgian PM condemns move by local mayor to shut down radical rightwing conference as ‘unconstitutional’
The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2024 Who were the prominent Tory MPs to oppose Sunak’s smoking ban? Ministers and ex-ministers – some seen as having leadership ambitions – who voted against the bill include Badenoch and Braverman