The only means by which individuals should be able to avoid removal, is by demonstrating to Home Office officials, that they have entered the country legally, are under 18, or are medically unfit to fly.
It is my job to champion the police, and I am both energised and reassured when I speak to coppers, so many of whom do truly heroic work. But is also my job to hold them to account. And trust has been lost.
Insisting on degrees is an example of pointless red tape, and I want to get rid of all such bureaucratic burdens. Sir Stephen House’s Operational Productivity Review is designed to do just that.
Take the case of a Nigerian national who was sentenced in 2016 to four years in prison for offences including possessing crack cocaine and heroin with the intention to supply. The First-tier Tribunal allowed his appeal against deportation on grounds deportation was irreconcilable with Article 8.
Elections, referenda and political fora are the appropriate settings for such debate, not the courts.
The political has been captured by the legal. Decisions of an executive, legislative and democratic nature have been assumed by our courts.
My new report for the Centre for Policy Studies – published today – calls on the government to turbocharge its commitment to them.
His passion for social justice was reinforced by a visit to Michaela Community School – of which I was Chairman of Governors.
It would be easy to complain about unrealistic Labour promises, or hope people will naturally switch allegiance as they age, but neither approach is good enough.
As a relatively new Minister at DexEU, I intend to make the positive case for the rich array of opportunities that are to be had as an independent trading nation.
We have the chance to send the message that Tories are pro-family, pro-justice – and that a child’s well-being is strengthened by relationships with both parents.
Diversity is no guarantee of community: we must nurture it, based on a clear definition of what it means to be an integrated citizen.
Past solutions have focused chiefly on economic solutions, but the the cultural and social dimensions have been neglected.
The school I helped to found is changing children’s lives.
We tackle head-on the myths that have paralysed action for years: that we’d become a pariah state, that we can reform from within, that repealing the Human Rights Act is enough.