Labour’s latest plans to upend our country’s constitution are receiving little to no opposition.
There is too much empire-building, mission creep, time-wasting diversification, and gasping to catch up with transitory trends.
The Law Society believes that the Rwanda Bill remains, at best, seriously ill-advised and, at worst, an affront to British constitutional principles. However, the revisions to it go some way in reducing its negative impact on the rule of law and our balance of powers.
Whilst the clergy can’t wash their hands of their role in appearing to facilitate “industrial scale” conversion to game the system, it is the Government that sets the rules of the game.
The sovereignty of Parliament, as the representative of the people, has been eroded, and power handed to an increasingly assertive bureaucracy.
By placing a duty on authorities to commission sufficient, child-specific support and advocacy services, along with developing separate statutory guidance, child victims of abuse can access uniform support, regardless of their location.
However, the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s demand for a mere Commons vote on every treaty is a poor substitute for the real, much less fashionable solution.
To insist that judges must have the final say would displace Parliament’s proper role as the ultimate decision-maker in our constitution.
He also says that the Conservative Party “seems to me to be more strident than I am comfortable with, less compassionate than I am comfortable with, and verging on the xenophobic.”
The Foreign Secretary talks to Trevor Phillips about performing his role from the House of Lords.
Rather than giving them more powers, as Labour will do if it wins the next general election, we should make them more transparent.
Our deputy editor and the former leader of the Liberal Democrats discuss the merits of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s intervention against the Rwanda scheme.
His Bill may be held up in the Lords as he continues to insists that his Government will stop the boats. The only means of squaring the two would be an election with illegal migration centre-stage.
Those who claim the Conservatives would benefit from a spell in opposition to ‘rest and detox’ are misguided. My first nine years in Parliament were spent in opposition, and it was a frustrating experience.
New research for British Future finds a broad consensus that if you want to deem Rwanda safe, you first have to check that it is.