The Home Office breached the human rights of two Windrush generation members who were refused citizenship, the High Court has ruled. Vernon Vanriel and Eunice Tumi were denied citizenship purely because they did not meet the five year rule( after which applicants can usuallyrequest indefinite leave to remain), despite their strong connection to the UK, it was revealed. However the only reason that they could not fulfil this requirement was because the Home Office had unlawfully prevented them fr

TWO judgements this past week have rewritten the rules of Pakistan’s parliamentary democracy.... First, the Supreme Court ruled that voting by lawmakers against party directions in the four scenarios laid out in Article 63A automatically nullifies their vote.... The article in question had been inserted in the Constitution to identify the circumstances in which lawmakers would be deemed to have formally defected from their party and to lay out the procedure for having them ejected from their s

PETALING JAYA: The government will not be advising the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to declare a new Proclamation of Emergency once the present nationwide state of emergency ends on Aug 1, says Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department( Parliament and Law) Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan. Takiyuddin( PN-Kota Baru) told Parliament during the first day of its five-day special sitting yesterday that the Federal Government had also decided, based on Article 150( 3) of the Federal Constitution, to revoke all

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The question of Downing Street’s adherence to coronavirus laws is again in the spotlight following claims about gatherings on Boris Johnson’s birthday in 2020.No 10 has conceded staff “ gathered briefly ” in the Cabinet Room on the afternoon of June 19 2020, with reports suggesting they shared cake and sang “ happy birthday ” to the Prime Minister despite social mixing indoors being banned. Downing Street denied claims that family and friends were later gathered upstairs in Mr Johnson’s flat to

On 20 May 2020, the day Boris Johnson’s private secretary arranged a lockdown-busting drinks gathering in the garden at No 10-according to a leaked email-England was under tough Covid-19 restrictions. Martin Reynolds, the prime minister’s principal private secretary, sent an email to more than 100 Downing Street employees asking them to “ bring your own booze ” to an evening event, ITV reported. But such gatherings were forbidden at the time, even outside. The prime minister imposed England’s fi

AFTER a month of intense political drama, court battles and violent moments in the provincial assembly, Punjab finally got its new chief minister on Saturday.... But Punjab is also where the party will find it much more difficult to accommodate its allies, who may be contesting against it in the next elections.... Read: The Hamza factorAs chief minister, Shehbaz Sharif was not known for sharing powers even with his cabinet ministers and used to micromanage everything through his favourite bure

Neighbourly distrust has grown more than fivefold since summer 2020, with one in five people saying relations have soured in their communities. Although a quarter of people( 25 per cent) reported greater trust in their neighbourhoods, up from seven per cent, close to the same number of people( 22 per cent) reported a deterioration, up from just four per cent last July. The survey was carried out by researchers at University College London( UCL), who have been monitoring the attitudes of more tha

NEW BBC crime drama Four Lives will tell the story of serial killer Stephen Port who murdered four young men he met on Grindr, the gay dating app. The show aims to focus on the perspectives of his four victims-but who were they?... 5 Port was sentenced to a whole-life order for the murders, meaning he will never be released Credit: pixel GRG Who were Stephen Port's victims?... ” Sarah, 55, added: “ I believe she meant it....

Allegations of parties in Downing Street have been brought back into focus after reports Boris Johnson attended a birthday party thrown in his honour in Downing Street during the first Covid lockdown. Scotland Yard announced on Tuesday 29 March that 20 fines will initially be issued as part of its investigations into “ partygate ”, after it was established that Covid laws were, indeed, broken at the heart of government. Sue Gray, the second permanent secretary in the Cabinet Office, was tasked w