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Adam Payne

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Political Editor, @politicshome. Sometimes heard on our podcast: The Rundown. Formerly Business Insider. Contact: [email protected] & DMs.

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Superb weekend long read from ⁦Adam Payne⁩ on the Tory fury Sunak was frantically trying to face down this week politicshome.com/news/article/r…

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For the sake of putting (at most) a few hundred people on a plane to a place recently found to be unsafe by our highest court [not a foreign court]:

- she wants the UK to breach every relevant international treaty on torture, mis-treatment, detention or fair process /1

For the sake of putting (at most) a few hundred people on a plane to a place recently found to be unsafe by our highest court [not a foreign court]: - she wants the UK to breach every relevant international treaty on torture, mis-treatment, detention or fair process /1
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Damian Green MP(@DamianGreen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The second test is the most unconservative statement I have ever heard from a Conservative politician. Giving the state the explicit power to override every legal constraint is what Putin and Xi do. We absolutely cannot go there.

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Back to the Lords we go...

A Tory peer warns government: 'Any hint of the law not being followed or the Human Rights Act being disapplied will really struggle to win Conservative votes'

Story on what's next w/ Caitlin Doherty

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Steven Swinford(@Steven_Swinford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Jeremy Hunt says the quiet bit out loud

There is 'no guarantee' that the government will be able to send migrants to Rwanda before the next election

'We are hopeful we will be able to get flights off to Rwanda next year

'We can't guarantee that, we have to pass legislation'

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Anoosh Chakelian(@Anoosh_C) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A sad week at the The New Statesman and thanks to the brilliant New Statesman and NSMG Union reps for their dedicated representation of talented colleagues:

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Robert Buckland on 'populist' calls to leave the ECHR:

They 'at best mean nothing and at worst undermine Britain’s standing in the world'

He adds: “It really is a non-issue and we should stop banging on about it”

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Rishi Sunak’s “emergency” Rwanda plan will take the form of primary legislation, requiring approval from the House of Commons and the House of Lords, confirms the PM’s spokesperson

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Jayne McCormack(@BBCJayneMcC) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“To talk about withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights” in order to push through the govt’s Rwanda plan ignores Northern Ireland & how the ECHR underpins the Good Friday Agreement says Tory MP Rt Hon Sir Robert Buckland KBE KC MP - he calls this suggestion a “red herring”

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Beckie Smith(@beckie__smith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Civil servants will be told they need to be in the office 60% of the time - more for senior managers. Scoop from Jess Bowie and me: civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…

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