Politics
Tory minister claims it’s ‘not productive’ to ‘pull up trade drawbridge’ over human rights abuses
The business secretary backed Dominic Raab, who said the UK would continue seeking out trade deals countries violating human rights standards.
UK will strike trade deals with countries violating human rights, Dominic Raab says
Raab told staff that trading only with countries that meet European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) standards would mean missing out on trade with “growth markets”.
The government just voted to curtail our ability to protest – and the papers have ignored it
The scariest part about living under Orban was "when the silence came. The newspapers stopped criticising and the protests stopped happening."
David Lammy shows what opposition really looks like with trademark speech
Tim Walker said the Tottenham MP "spoke for all of us who love our country and what it once stood for".
Dominic Raab credited for ‘epic trolling’ as he warns democracy is “in retreat” around the world
Yesterday UK MPs voted through a policing bill which would ‘make a dictator blush’.
Full list of MPs who voted through policing bill that would ‘make a dictator blush’
Is your MP among them?
MPs vote through the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
DUP MP Gavin Robinson said: "The loose and lazy way this legislation is drafted would make a dictator blush.
Tory MP says he’s voting for policing bill because he gets ‘interrupted by endless demonstrations’
With "Parliament being the seat of democracy, our work should not be disrupted".
Cutting aid while boosting nuclear arsenal shows govt has got its priorities “badly wrong”
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: “If global Britain is to mean anything, it cannot mean selling arms to Saudi Arabia and cutting aid to Yemen.”