Defeated amendments to immigration legislation looked like they had been drawn up "on the back of a fag packet" and would leave individuals in legal limbo, it was claimed yesterday.
Tory MP Dominic Raab's proposed changes to the Immigration Bill, which sought to give ministers rather than judges the final say on whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals, was defeated by 241 votes to 97.
However nearly 100 MPs - many of them Tory backbenchers - voted in favour of allowing ministers to have the ultimate decision.
Unison national officer CLARE WILLIAMS spoke to the Morning Star about the union’s priority campaigns and why they will not let up just because the Prime Minister has changed
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
DEIRDRE O’CONNOR warns about a big shift in how freedom of speech and protest are treated in new policy document before Parliament today
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10



