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It’s Magna Carta day as court grounds Rwanda flight and govt breaks Brexit law
"Happy Magna Carta day! Let's celebrate due process and equality before the law since 1215! Or, as the Tories would have it, meddling lefty lawyers."
Labour-led Westminster council hails Wonka raid on Oxford Street’s American candy shops
Over £100,000 of counterfeit illegal goods were seized by trading standards officers, Adam Hug announced.
Watch: Therese Coffey was sent out to speak to the media this morning… it didn’t go well
"We've just wasted £500,000, what an abject failure. If the ECHR made their decision that quickly, it must have been obvious that the Rwanda policy was in contravention of that convention?", Susanna Reid pointed out.
Best reactions as government’s deportation flight to Rwanda is grounded
"Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Liz Truss, your boys took a hell of a beating," Owen Jones tweeted.
‘I deal in facts’: Classy James O’Brien shuts down callers’ defence of Rwanda plan
Priti Patel has said preparation for the next flight "begins now" after the first deportation was delayed by the European Court of Human Rights.
Flashback: To when Johnson fiercely defended the European Convention on Human Rights
"Keep the European Convention, it's a fine thing… We wrote it."
‘Air Farce None!’: ALL asylum seekers removed from Rwanda flight in humiliating blow for the government
A Home Office source has confirmed the plane, which was stood on the tarmac ready for departure, will not take off due to interventions from the ECHR.
‘Stop racist deportations’: Protesters blockade exists to immigration removal centres ahead of Rwanda flight
"No one should be on this flight. No one should be deported under such racist and discriminatory policies."
Put a teasock in it Truss? ‘Tory govt pursuing damaging attack against Good Friday Agreement’ – Taoiseach
It comes as Liz Truss was lampooned for not being able to pronounce the word Taoiseach.