Well, Tory MPs were warned. And NB (and I’m sure John McTernan knows) that REULA 2023 is only the start of it: much post-Brexit legislation in eg agriculture, trade, medicines gives huge powers to Ministers to set policy and rules within a skeletal framework.

Quite right

As readouts of calls with leaders of friendly countries go, this is quite something. The Netanyahu Government's conduct of the war in Gaza is doing serious damage to Israel's relationships even with its closest friends

The devastating Israeli airstrikes that killed World Central Kitchen personnel yesterday bring the number of aid workers killed in this conflict to 196 – including more than 175 members of our own United Nations staff.

This is unconscionable.

This thread explains excellently how the UK Internal Market Act has fundamentally changed the dynamics of devolution in (mainly) Scotland and Wales.

The framework regulating the UK’s internal market is fundamentally not the same as the EU single market it has replaced.

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A quota reserved for hereditaries is utterly indefensible. But some have proved their excellence and⁩ should not be excluded from a reformed, more meritocratic system of fixed-term appointments to ⁦House of Lords⁩. on.ft.com/4awCeDo

The government will have to decide that approx 99% of 2023 and 2024 arrivals are exempt from the duty to remove (having promised to remove 100% of those who arrived after 7th March 2023). You can see why they would like to avoid a pre-election decision if they possibly could

Happy Easter!

My bit in The Times and The Sunday Times on 🇨🇳, the Lenovo supercomputer and 🇬🇧 👇

“On the face of it, this raises far more important strategic & national security qs than the revelations, important though they were, of fairly standard Chinese espionage announced in Parliament earlier this week”.

Honours: our Governance Project recommended that there should not be separate “political honours” but that all honours (including any proposals from the PM or other party leaders) should be subject to an independent process of assessment ukgovernanceproject.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to allow unimpeded access of food aid into Gaza, where sections of the population are facing imminent starvation, in a significant legal rebuke to Israel’s claim it is not blocking aid deliveries.
theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

“Be careful what you wish for, there's a reason people around the world watch moments from PMQs - it’s unusual.'

Q&A: Is PMQs is fit for purpose? 🤔

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