Politics

"Would you like to come up? You've got so much to say! Come on, come on then"

Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee said effective scrutiny of national security issues is being prevented.

A spokesman for the former prime minister said that he has fully cooperated with the inquiry.

ERG chairman Mark Francois said that the group’s so-called ‘star chamber’ of lawyers would scrutinise the legislation before MPs vote on it.

Conservative peer Lord Dobbs asked about ‘relations with Greece’ as the Foreign Secretary faced questions from peers for the first time.

The Home Secretary signed the legally-binding deal in Kigali on Tuesday.

Officials say the treaty centres on preventing ‘refoulement’, where asylum seekers are removed and returned to a country where they face persecution.

The Home Secretary travelled to Kigali and signed the agreement on Tuesday.

“It would not be me in power as President, people of Ireland. It would be me and you.”