Tag: Priti Patel

A well-known UK lawyer said the £300-million government strategy which would punish recreational drug users is not "compliant with human rights law".

"The facts do not support the case for cruelty."

It goes to she how bad Anglo-French relations have become – and how weak the UK is, the Independent's Sean O'Grady says.

"You can't threaten rescue services with legal action if they help refugees in trouble and then pretend to be somehow moved by their plight when they die."

"The only way we will put these people off is by giving them the message that if you come here you are going to be sent 8,000 miles away."

The arrivals came as it was reported asylum seekers will have to obey strict rules in new centres or face their claims being rejected in plans advocated by Patel.

It comes after one civil servant is reported to have said: “She hates us and we all hate her.”

Last month, Patel claimed that people crossing the Channel are “not genuine asylum seekers” and just want to stay in hotels.

“Same old fake news, this time in the front page of a respected paper, The Times," Albania's foreign minister said.