Taoiseach Simon Harris tells Sky News the UK must respect an existing arrangement to take back asylum seekers amid a row over migrants crossing the border from Northern Ireland

'We also have a legitimate expectation that agreements between our two countries are honoured'

Sunak to speak at an event on importance of press freedom. Perhaps he will explain why he goes out of his way to prevent sketchwriters coming to all his events

..since new entrants to labour market earn less you'd expect average migrant wages to fall relative to UK.

If you believed claims about new migrants doing low-paid/low-skilled jobs you'd expect them to fall *a lot*.

No evidence of that here.

This shocking exchange should be the end of Ben Habib's political career.

If Richard Tice were a real leader he'd take action.

The government’s asylum policies read like a slaver’s charter.

We are directly fuelling misery, destitution & exploitation in our communities by threatening asylum seekers with forced removal to Rwanda.

What would you do? Of course they’re dropping out of the system. #r4today

My sister in law has PIP because she is living with terminal cancer. How exactly will these vouchers improve her health when the signs that her breast cancer had spread over her body were missed by delays in NHS?

James Taylor from disability equality charity Scope said ‘It’s hard to have any faith that this consultation is about anything other than cutting the benefits bill, no matter the impact’

A dad who cares for his disabled daughter texted to say ‘we are being exterminated’

We're all in this together...

Damp, mouldy and collapsing classrooms are the grim cost of years of sneaky Conservative cuts.

“…capital investment in school buildings has been cut by 50% in real terms since 2010.” mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Wow! I have just seen a Sky news 'report' perpetuating this bollox that the free movement of *people* across the UK border in Ireland is because of Ireland 'insisting on an open border' post Brexit...
This insistence was for *goods*
To complement the long standing bilateral CTA

'Britain is meant to be launching the “most advanced border in the world” this week. It doesn’t feel like that to the people running it.'
politico.eu/article/uk-bre…

I’ve written to Oliver Dowden about the government failing to meet the ministerial code requirement for transparency about David Cameron possibly being recused from aspects of his work due to financial interests.

'pay attention to process and institutions, know that the existence of EU red lines does not prevent the EU from being flexible when it wants, and be aware that there will be a constant incentive to engage and negotiate' - Aslak Berg for CER cer.eu/insights/livin…

Nice of Guido to use a decade old photo. Though I do still have that t-shirt.

I am, of course, well aware detentions happen all the time. What's sick is taking people into detention weeks earlier than necessary to provide an election boost for the Tories.

It’s an absolute marvel that so many pro #Brexit accounts on Twitter remain precisely as ignorant about Ireland, (Northern Ireland) and the EU today as they did before #Brexit .

This is one example:

This whole thread….

John Fitzpatrick So 🇮🇪🇮🇱 Colin Youngs Anna Kane As to looking after its own interests…

David Frost clearly still harbours his petty resentment toward the Government of Ireland for thoroughly outsmarting him and his #Brexit negotiating team.

You’d get as much nuance out of a Daily Express reader.

Scotland drama #GraniteHarbour returns to Aberdeen for third series on BBC One. More details:

tvzoneuk.com/post/pr-granit…

If you missed it: #DeathInParadise spin-off #BeyondParadise renewed for third series and Christmas special on BBC One. More details:

tvzoneuk.com/post/beyondpar…