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‘A 17-20% Drop in Contracts’ – The Brexit Exodus has Already Begun
British manufacturing already suffering from as Boris Johnson gambles on a ‘no deal’ crash out of the European Union.
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Campaigners for British Ex-Pats Condemn Boris Johnson’s “Do-or-Die” Brexit Threat
Alex Varley-Winter reports on how British Citizens resident in the EU are left in a ‘void’ by UK politicians about the risk of being made ‘illegals’.
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UK DETENTION CAMPS: Home Office Exposes Trafficked Children to Abuse
With US ‘migrant detention centres being compared to concentration camps, Alex Varley winter reports on how Britain has its own problem with non-criminal prisons.
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Home Office Hits Back at ‘Unlawful’ Fast Track Deportation Claims in High Court
A case has been brought by the Medical Justice charity against the Home Secretary on the challenging of possibly unlawful deportations.
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Home Office’s Fast-Track Deportations ‘Tricking’ Vulnerable Migrants into Returning to Danger, Court Hears
A case has been brought to challenge the Home Office’s policy of giving migrants just 72 hours’ notice of potential deportation.
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Rory Stewart’s Development Department ‘Spinning Landmark Report to UN on UK Poverty’
Civil servants in the Department for International Development ‘only wanted to hear good news’ to pass on to the UN, says disability charity.
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Facebook the ‘Largest Fraud in Corporate History’ – Fake Accounts and Customer Data Theft
Aaron Greenspan, who claims to be the original creator of Facebook, attacked the giants of Silicon Valley in the UK parliament, alleging fraud, dishonesty, and data theft on a massive scale.
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Universal Credit: Traumatised Rape Survivor had Benefits Stopped Indefinitely after Missing Meetings, Committee Hears
Parliament’s Work and Pensions Committee heard evidence on an alleged increase in the number of women entering prostitution as a form of ‘survival sex’ after having their benefits cut.
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Don’t Let Brexit Sabotage Scotland’s Action on Climate Change, Nicola Sturgeon Warns Westminster
Scotland’s First Minister said the country’s membership of the single market had been key to it investing in clean energy. Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged the Government not to let Brexit imperil Scotland’s plan to reach ‘net zero’ carbon emissions by 2045. In a speech last week at Glasgow’s All Energy Conference, Ms…
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DEMOCRACY IN DARKNESS: Brexit Impasse Freezes Anti Poverty Policies
Another day, another example from Parliament on how Brexit paralysis is affecting all levels of Theresa May’s government.
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DEMOCRACY IN DARKNESS: Hiding the Truth of Britain’s Brexit Inaction from Parliament and the World
Though Theresa May’s Government gave itself a deadline of July 2019 to report on progress against UN Sustainable Development Goals, it now seems to be hiding its lack of action.
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Health Secretary blind to £35M impact of Babylon’s ‘GP at Hand’ Service
Matt Hancock accused of “wholly untrue” Parliamentary answer dismissing local MP’s plea for cash-strapped Clinical Commissioning Group
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Cradle of Industrial Revolution Lagging Behind in Restoration of Woodlands and Re-wilding
The Government’s ‘Clean Growth Strategy’ will not honour the Paris Accords, MPs are warned.
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‘The Way of the Wild West’: Calls for an Inquiry over Babylon ‘GP at Hand’ App
The GP At Hand app had led to one tiny medical centre in London now serve more than 48,000 patients. MP Andy Slaughter calls for inquiry into the digital services undermining the NHS.
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Paying the Polluter: UK feels the Heat on £17bn aid to Fossil Fuel Giants
As hundreds of green protestors are arrested in London, NGOs sound the alarm over the UK’s empty promises
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Spy Kids – Gambling with Children’s Lives
Campaigners warn that any use of targets for more teenage spies would be “gambling with children’s lives” while insiders allege police are being told to “Get more kids, get them younger”.
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Democracy in Darkness: UK Scrambles to beat the clock to stop Gridlock of 10,000 tonnes of Meat Products
No deal scenarios – EU civil servants voting today on UK meat and dairy farmers’ access to EU Market UK Government is working against the clock to get the permissions necessary to sell meat and dairy to Europe in a no deal scenario The European Commission’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCOPAFF)…
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BACKDOOR BREXIT – Parliament Stumbling into International No-Man’s Land
Alex Varley-Winter on the Lost Week in Westminster, as Britain faces ‘Third Country’ Limbo, 10000 tons of Sheep and 2,000,000 tons of Landfill.
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Ministers’ “Power Grab” from Doctors over Brexit Medicine Shortages
The Department for Exiting the EU accepts ‘some risks to patients’ in Government’s emergency planning.
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The Great Brexit Trade Takeover: Unilateral Powers Assigned to Liam Fox
This month DIT Minister George Hollingbery quietly assigned its entire ambit to Fox himself, on a ‘temporary’ basis, as part of Brexit ‘contingency’ measures, but with zero Parliamentary oversight.
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Spykids: Government to probe Whistleblower’s Claim of Police Targets to Increase use of Child Spies
Home Office Minister agrees to probe claim of recruitment targets for more child spies against ‘County Lines’ drug gangs
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Michael Gove Challenged on Brexit Falsehood that Britain Can’t Revoke Article 50
One of the key players in Britain’s vote to leave the EU referred to the Scottish National Party as a “series of circus acts” when challenged over Brexit law.
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IN CONTEMPT: Brexit Secretary admits UK is Not Ready for ‘No Deal’
Six safeguarding bills are not passed and the Government continues to stall on anti-corruption law in Financial Services Bill
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‘We are at War’ with Putin MPs told: his Aim is to Divide Europe
Counter-misinformation group director tells parliamentary session how his Institute of Statecraft was a casualty of 21st Century ‘Hybrid War’
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It’s not just Chlorinated Chickens: the Hidden Hand of Brexit Deregulation
In the rush to meet 29 March Brexit deadline, Charities warn Ministers crucial safeguards are being removed without the scrutiny of Parliament
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Whitehall Under Fire for Withholding ‘No-Deal’ List from MPs
Civil Service chief forced to defend Secrecy of Cabinet Papers; Assessment revealed that almost one-third of ‘critical’ no-deal projects would be off-track if the UK crashes out of the EU.
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COMMENT & ANALYSIS
What is ‘SENSITIVE’? – The suppressed No Deal Impact report This week’s Contempt Committee hearing followed the successful threat of contempt proceedings being used by MPs to force the release of Brexit-related Cabinet papers. “It really would be to the eternal shame of the Conservative party if it were to continue to support a no-deal…
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Contempt Inquiry challenges Government bid to stop MPs releasing ‘sensitive’ Brexit documents
The Government would like its own legal advice and Cabinet papers to be off-limits to Opposition MPs Parliament’s Procedure Committee has held its final hearing on how Theresa May’s minority Government was found In Contempt of Parliament last December. The MPs’ inquiry – known officially as the “Powers of the House of Commons to Call…
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Contempt threat by Breakaway Independent Group MPs forces Cabinet to release £13bn cost of No Deal Brexit
The revelations in the Government’s ‘Implications for Business and Trade of a No Deal Brexit’ report are an Alarming Wake-Up Call. But can the public hear it?
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Contempt Committee: Theresa May’s Government has ‘Not a leg to Stand On’ Withholding Information from Parliament
The Government’s attempts to block MPs from requesting the release of “sensitive information” is being scrutinised by a parliamentary committee.
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No Deal Scenarios – Secrecy, Dark Money & Hidden Hands
In Brexit negotiations the transparency of the EU is in stark contrast to Britain, dominated by the hidden hand of think tanks and dark money
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In Contempt – Democracy in Darkness
Alex Varley-Winter announces her new Investigation into Executive Overreach in the Tumult of Brexit, and Calls out for Inside Information
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Parliament Kept in the Dark About Brexit Trade Deals while the Sun Shines
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox claimed he showed MPs a list of Brexit trade deals. He never has. The Sun got it first.
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Rolled Over: Liam Fox Keeps MPs in the Dark about 750 Brexit Trade Deals
MPs today pressuring Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox to explain hundreds of trade agreements had to ‘play detective’ on the web to discover the facts.
