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Today's Brexit warning from Donald Tusk:
"The UK’s decision on Brexit has caused the problem [of the Irish border] and the UK will have to solve it. Without a solution there will be no withdrawal agreement and no transition."

Don't think it's been mentioned nearly enough that when the Tory/LibDem Coalition brought in the 2014 Immigration Act which caused the Windrush Scandal, only 18 MPs had the courage to vote against. They included David Lammy, Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn.

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Today's Brexit warning from Donald Tusk:
"The UK’s decision on Brexit has caused the problem [of the Irish border] and the UK will have to solve it. Without a solution there will be no withdrawal agreement and no transition."

Where are the EU going to go with this though? No withdrawal agreement and no transition is going to make the Irish border problem disastrously worse, surely.
I've thought for a while that May's strategy is to use this exact scenario to bounce the EU into accepting her favoured 'cherry-picking' deal, don't really want to see them fall for it.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:This is an excellent thread

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Don't think it's been mentioned nearly enough that when the Tory/LibDem Coalition brought in the 2014 Immigration Act which caused the Windrush Scandal, only 18 MPs had the courage to vote against. They included David Lammy, Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn.

Folk pointing out that Diane Abbott predicted precisely what is happening when this was debated in Parliament.

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Imp clarification after #PMQs
from No10: destruction of landing cards was an "operational decision" by the UK Border Agency. Ie Not a decision by a Labour Home Secretary or minister.
1:05 PM - Apr 18, 2018

Faisal Islam
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I am now highly confused - the Government/ Home Office released a background statement last night asserting “In 2010, the decision was taken by the UK Border Agency” - the PM says made in 2009 by Labour.
1:08 PM - Apr 18, 2018

The Queen's corgis are dead: long live the 'dorgis'
Willow’s death marks first time the monarch has not owned a corgi since the second world war

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Sorry I deleted the image as it was HUGE. Will try again

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:In 2010, the decision was taken...

So not 2009 then!

Home Office claims that the destruction of Windrush-era landing cards in 2010 had no impact on the rights of those individuals to stay in the UK have been dramatically undermined by the evidence of two new whistleblowers. Staff, in fact, routinely used landing card information as part of their decision-making process, and saw the Windrush landing cards as a useful resource, according to information from two new Home Office whistleblowers.

Their accounts have been further supported by the emergence of Border Force guidance, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, that appears to contradict the government’s justification of a decision to destroy an archive of Windrush-era arrival slips.

The Border Force note appears to undermine the Home Office and Downing Street’s rejection of the documents’ significance. Giving details of how landing cards are used currently, the document stated: “Information from a landing card may be used by an entry clearance officer in making a decision on a visa application.”

Whistleblowers contradict No 10 over destroyed Windrush landing cards

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5m ago 15:01
Standards commissioner launches inquiry into claims Hunt broke MPs' code of conduct

Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, is being investigated by Kathryn Stone, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, her office has confirmed. The allegation is that he failed to declare his interest in a property company. PoliticsHome broke the story. We knew that a complaint had been submitted to the commissioner, but that does not automatically trigger an investigation because some complaints get dismissed as without merit. This one, though, is serious enough to merit a proper inquiry.(Politics Live, Guardian)

Senior British and EU officials will discuss the UK’s future relationship with the European Union for the first time on Wednesday, in a milestone for the Brexit talks.
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Ministers to announce Brexit climbdown as they face Lords defeat
Government braces for series of amendments including over customs union as withdrawal bill goes through upper house
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17:13

This is from Sky’s Faisal Islam.


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Keir Starmer watching on in Lords as peers are set to defeat Government returning an amended EU Withdrawal Bill closer to Opposition than Government policy
5:12 PM - Apr 18, 2018 (Politics Live, Guardian)

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:

Well worth a watch. Dawn Butler-Brent asking John Bercow for clarification over the destruction of the Windrush landing cards.

citizenJA wrote: Whistleblowers contradict No 10 over destroyed Windrush landing cards

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... ding-cards" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:

Well worth a watch. Dawn Butler-Brent asking John Bercow for clarification over the destruction of the Windrush landing cards.

Just on a point of order of my own, I think that is her constituency not her surname?