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We Shouldn’t Expect MPs To Be “Saints”, Says Standards Chair
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People who stand to be MPs should not be expected to be “saints”, the recently-elected Standards Committee chair has said, adding that punishments for minor parliamentary rules breaches are too “severe”.
In an interview with The House magazine, Alberto Costa said MPs are “held to a higher standard”, which is “generally right”. However, he said MPs should not be held to such a high standard “that you are requiring saints to stand forward for election”.
The Conservative MP for South Leicestershire said: “I am not and never have been a saint. I am a fallible human being like anyone else. To err is human.”
MPs must abide by a strict Code of Conduct throughout their time in Parliament. This means ensuring rules around lobbying, receiving payment for parliamentary advice and declaring interests are not broken, as well as generally upholding the reputation of Parliament.
Breaching the rules could see an MP investigated by one of several different parliamentary bodies, with the Standards Committee deciding appropriate sanctions in more serious cases.
Asked whether he sympathises with MPs being held to a higher standard than the public, Costa laughed: “Well, I am one of them, so I sympathise with myself.”
He added: “People say, ‘We want more normal people that represent us, that look like us, that act like us.’ Well, when you put a mirror up to society, you’re going to get all sorts of people. So, don’t be surprised when you get all sorts of people then that come into the House.”
Costa called for punishments for MPs breaking minor parliamentary rules to be less “severe”, saying that one of the things he is “not very comfortable with” is when “an MP commits an administrative error” and has to then publicly apologise.
According to the Code of Conduct, MPs must disclose non-parliamentary financial interests or benefits within 28 days of receipt. Breaching this limit leads to an investigation by the parliamentary commissioner for standards.
However, Costa said it is “very easy” to breach the 28-day limit, and that MPs having to make a public apology for what constitutes a “really minor error” is “a bit too severe”.
He said: “I don’t think in the usual workplace for minor breaches of the terms or conditions of contract, people are held to such a high level where they have to make a public apology. That’s just a bit too severe.
“My only interest is: is it helping the public have trust in us or not? And I don’t think it does.”
Costa pointed to the example of former Scottish National Party MP Margaret Ferrier, who was suspended from the House of Commons after breaching Covid lockdown rules – a punishment he found “a little bit too severe”.
“The question that my colleagues and I had to ask was: is this an example of somebody corrupt, or is it an example of somebody that has done something that, there go I but for the grace of God, with a bit of compassion you might understand why she’d done what she did?”
With the Labour Government “committed to modernising processes”, Costa said he hopes there is an opportunity to refine the standards process so that only offences concerning “matters which are not minor” are made public.
He also suggested bullying – which has prompted investigations, then resignations, from high-profile MPs – is a form of misconduct that could be dealt with privately.
“I would have thought that if you were to complain at your place of work, they would try and mediate in private. They would say, ‘look what’s happened here?’, and maybe get a private apology from the person.”
He said: “The concern here is that, actually, it might be a little bit too easy to complain that an MP is bullied, or somebody else is bullied.”
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Rupert Lowe skewers human rights lawyer over outrageous illegal immigrant demand: ‘Pork barrelling a living!’
Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has strongly rejected calls for an amnesty for illegal migrants in Britain, following suggestions by human rights lawyer Ivon Sampson.
Speaking on GB News, Sampson argued that offering an amnesty would enable better tracking of migrants, stating: “The only sensible thing to do is to offer an amnesty – then we have a sensible policy of ensuring those people who come in are tracked.”
Lowe hit back, saying: “These human rights lawyers pork barrel a living on the back of all this Tony Blair legislation which has created our problem.”
He called for tougher measures, suggesting migrants should be placed in “uncomfortable, untented camps” on remote islands.
Rupert Lowe said human rights lawyers like Sampson are ‘pork barrelling a living’
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The clash comes as new figures reveal up to one in 12 people living in London are illegal migrants.
A previously confidential report commissioned by Thames Water estimates between 390,355 and 585,533 illegal migrants are living in the capital, with a median figure of 487,944.
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Reform’s Rupert Lowe joined Matt Goodwin on GB News
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The study, conducted by Edge Analytics and Leeds University experts, suggests most illegal migrants initially arrived on work, study or visitor visas before overstaying.
The research indicates around one million illegal migrants could be living in the UK, with 60 per cent concentrated in London.
The findings were obtained through Freedom of Information requests to Thames Water, who commissioned the study to better understand their “hidden” service users.
Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf warned the situation represents “not just a national emergency, it’s a national security emergency.”
The human rights lawyer argued in favour of giving all illegal migrants amnesty
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He expressed particular concern about demographics, noting: “90 per cent of the people crossing the Channel are men.”
“The number of military age males making that journey legally surpasses the number of available soldiers, both standing and territorial,” Yusuf told GB News.
Deputy Reform UK leader Richard Tice added: “One in 12 people in London are here illegally, probably working illegally using taxpayer-funded public infrastructure and services. It is totally unacceptable.”
The Home Office reports having removed 16,400 illegal migrants in the past six months, the highest figure in half a decade.
More than 1,000 people have already crossed the Channel in small boats during the first 23 days of 2025.
This follows 38,816 Channel crossings in 2024, the second highest total on record.
A Home Office spokesman said: “This Government is strengthening global partnerships and rooting out the criminal gangs who profit from small boat crossings which threaten lives.”
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp called the figures “deeply alarming” and urged the Labour government to “urgently start deporting far more illegal immigrants.”
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Donald Trump poised to release JFK assassination files as President signs latest executive order
Donald Trump has signed an executive order to release the assassination files of John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
In his latest high-profile signing since returning to the White House on Monday, Trump vowed that “all will be revealed” as he put pen to paper on bringing the details of JFK’s death to light.
“That’s a a big one, huh?” Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office. “A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. Everything will be revealed.”
And in a show of faith to JFK’s nephew – and Trump’s incoming health secretary – Robert F Kennedy Jr, the President directed aides to pass the signing pen to his key ally.
‘That’s a a big one, huh?’ Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office
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On the campaign trail on the path back to office, Trump had vowed to release classified intelligence and law enforcement files on JFK’s mysterious November 1963 killing.
On Sunday, he told supporters at a Washington DC rally: “In the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records related to the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr Martin Luther King Jr and other topics of great public interest.”
But he may face resistance from what he calls the “swamp”.
Trump had released some documents related to the assassination, but ultimately caved to pressure from the Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation, and kept a significant chunk of documents under wraps over “national security concerns”.
Soon-to-be-health chief RFK Jr has said he believes the CIA was involved in his uncle’s death – which the agency has described as “baseless”.
Kennedy Jr has also said he believes his father, Robert Kennedy, was killed by multiple gunmen – which flies in the face of public accounts of his death.
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Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has accused authorities of suppressing crucial information about the Southport dance class killer, claiming they presented him as “a Welsh choir boy” to the public.
Speaking on GB News, Kwarteng said officials “clearly knew things about the killer which they suppressed” in the aftermath of the attacks.
“At the time of the murder, they essentially were presenting the killer as a Welsh choir boy,” he said.
The former chancellor suggested there was a deliberate withholding of information about Axel Rudakubana’s background and potential motivations.
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“Either they suppressed it for whatever reason, and we need to get to the bottom of it, or it was a cover up because they felt that in that very patronising way, they felt that people couldn’t handle that information,” Kwarteng said.
Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty earlier this week to murdering three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport last July.
He is due to be sentenced today at Liverpool Crown Court – while his crimes could warrant a whole life order, this cannot be applied as he was 17 at the time of the offences.
Kwarteng claimed Merseyside Police were instructed by “people on high” not to release information they had about the case.
Axel Rudakubana will be sentenced in court today for the Southport attack
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“What was so crazy about that was that it actually stoked the very thing that they wanted to avoid because people were kept in the dark,” he said.
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The former chancellor pointed to what he called an “obvious double standard” in how the case was handled.
“Picture a situation where the terrorist, the killer, had been a white teenager who had been found with white supremacist literature, who then went out and killed three girls of ethnic origin,” he said.
“There wouldn’t be this debate. They would have denounced it,” Kwarteng added. He also criticised how Rudakubana had “slipped through the net” despite being repeatedly referred to Prevent.
Starmer has defended his position on withholding information about the Southport killer. The Prime Minister insisted he was following “the law of the land” to prevent the case against Rudakubana from collapsing.
Kwarteng questioned how the 18-year-old ‘slipped through the net’ after being referred to Prevent three times
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“You know and I know that it would not have been right to disclose those details,” Starmer told reporters. “The only losers if the details had been disclosed would be the victims and the families because it ran the risk the trial would collapse.”
Rudakubana faces a life sentence, with a minimum term to be set by the judge before he can be considered for release. Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said investigations revealed “a man with a unhealthy obsession with extreme violence” but noted that “no one ideology was uncovered.”
Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor Ursula Doyle described it as “an unspeakable attack” that turned what should have been a day of “carefree innocence” into “a scene of the darkest horror.”
“It is clear that this was a young man with a sickening and sustained interest in death and violence,” she added.
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‘We have to kick start the economy!’ MP defends building plans as Labour accused of ‘ignoring will of the people’
Labour MP Matthew Pennycook has defended the Government’s new planning reforms, insisting that local communities will retain their right to object to developments.
Speaking to GB News, Pennycook emphasised that “no one is saying that the views of local communities should be ignored”.
The defence comes as part of Labour’s broader initiative to streamline planning processes for major infrastructure projects across the UK.
The Government plans to reduce the number of legal challenges allowed against major infrastructure projects from three to one for “cynical cases lodged purely to cause delay.”
Matthew Pennycook said that they are not ignoring local communities
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Speaking to GB News, Pennycook said: “No one is saying that the views of local communities, local people up and down the country, should be ignored under any of the changes we’re making. People will still have a right to object to planning applications.
“They will keep the right to challenge the lawfulness of government decisions. What we’re saying today is that as part of our plan for change, we’ve got to kick start economic growth.
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“We’ve got to streamline the delivery of the critical national infrastructure that our country needs, whether that’s energy, transport or aviation projects.
“We already made a number of changes to national planning policy last year to aid with that objective. We’re making further changes to the planning and infrastructure bill we’re bringing forward in the coming months.
“As part of that package, what we’re saying today is that your ability to bring forward repeated judicial review permission requests shouldn’t be allowed.
“We’re going to reduce the number of those permission requests from three to two in most cases. And in cases where a judge says that this challenge has no merit whatsoever from three to one, that will get the delivery of critical national infrastructure speeded up.
Keir Starmer has vowed to defeat what he calls “blockers”
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“That will have a real world impact. Because, I’m sure your viewers put it to you repeatedly, it is just too difficult to get anything built in this country.”
The changes follow recommendations from Lord Banner KC’s review of legal challenges against major building projects.
Lord Banner said: “I saw broad consensus from claimants to scheme promoters that a quicker system of justice would be in their interests, provided that cases can still be tried fairly.”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to defeat what he calls “blockers” who are preventing the UK from completing vital infrastructure projects.
The government plans to reduce the number of legal challenges allowed against major infrastructure project
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“For too long, blockers have had the upper hand in legal challenges – using our court processes to frustrate growth,” Starmer said.
He added: “We’re putting an end to this challenge culture by taking on the NIMBYs and a broken system that has slowed down our progress as a nation.”
The Prime Minister described the reforms as “taking the brakes off Britain by reforming the planning system so it is pro-growth and pro-infrastructure.”
According to the government, projects that have faced significant delays include the Sizewell C nuclear plant, the A47 national highway project and new windfarms in East Anglia.
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Inheritance tax raid on military families will raise ‘nothing’ for Treasury, ex-Chancellor claims
Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has branded Labour’s plans to impose inheritance tax on military families as “total insanity”, warning the measure would raise “nothing” for the Treasury.
Speaking to GB News, Kwarteng criticised the policy that will affect death-in-service payments for Armed Forces personnel from April 2027.
MPs have called for an urgent inquiry into the Labour Government’s decision not to compensate Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) women impacted by historic policy decisions.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for State Pension Inequality for Women has urged the Work and Pensions Committee to investigate the Government’s response to a damning ombudsman report.
This request follows the government’s acceptance of maladministration in communicating pension changes to 1950s-born women, despite its refusal to provide financial compensation.
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) launched its investigation in 2018 to examine potential injustice which reportedly impacted 3.8 million older women.
In the investigation, the PHSO focused on whether these women suffered due to “maladministration” in how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) communicated state pension age changes.
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MPs have launched an inquiry into Waspi women “injustice”
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The probe was specifically designed to determine if the DWP’s communication methods regarding the changes to women’s state pension age were adequate.
Following the report’s findings, the government acknowledged there had been maladministration in how changes were communicated, but rejected the PHSO’s proposed remedy. The Government subsequently confirmed it would not provide any financial compensation to women born in the 1950s.
As part of its inquiry, the APPG has now asked the Work and Pensions Committee to evaluate whether the government’s decision to withhold financial redress was justified.
Furthermore, the parliamentary group specifically highlighted concerns about the PHSO’s statistics regarding women’s awareness of the pension changes and how official correspondence was interpreted and retained.
The PHSO investigation revealed that the DWP had provided adequate and accurate information between 1995 and 2004. However, the probe found that DWP decision-making between 2005 and 2007 resulted in a significant delay.
This delay meant there was a 28-month gap before the department began sending letters to 1950s-born women about their state pension age changes.
APPG co-chairs Rebecca Long-Bailey and Bryn Davies expressed deep concern over the Government’s stance. “As you can imagine many of those women who have suffered this injustice are simply devastated and perplexed by the Governments response,” they said.
The co-chairs formally requested the committee to consider “opening an inquiry or holding a one-off session into the Governments response.” The APPG has called for an investigation into what financial redress options were considered and costed by the DWP.
The group also wants to know whether additional compensation options remain available for consideration.
As well as this, parliamentary group noted that while the Work and Pensions Committee lacks legal powers to force government action, it has historically played a crucial role.
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The committee has previously been instrumental in scrutinising government responses to PHSO reports.
As well as this, the APPG has requested that the committee publish its own response to the government’s handling of the PHSO report.
“It is gravely concerning that without such scrutiny in this instance, a precedent may be set by this case where the government rejects the PHSO’s independent review and central recommendations without further challenge and discussion,” the co-chairs stated.
The group emphasised that proper scrutiny of the government’s response to the PHSO report was essential to maintain the integrity of independent reviews.
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Barrister demands change to the law as Axel Rudakubana avoids life sentence by TEN days: ‘It’s evil!’
A UK Barrister has said the law “should be changed” on handing life sentences to those under 18, as Axel Rudakubana is set to avoid a whole life sentence for the Southport attack.
Speaking to GB News, Steven Barrett said that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “should have used his majority” in Parliament to change the law ahead of Rudakubana’s sentencing.
The Southport triple-killer will be sentenced today at Liverpool Crown Court – but while his crimes could warrant a whole life order, this cannot be applied as he was 17 at the time of the offences.
A minimum term will be instead set by the judge before he can be considered for release.
Barrister Steven Barrett has demanded a change in the law for life sentences ahead of the decision on Axel Rudakubana’s killings
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Admitting that the case is “rare” for such a law to be changed, Barrett told GB News that the Labour Government could have “taken action” to avoid Rudakubana avoiding the full hand of justice.
Barrett fumed: “I would have liked my country and my Prime Minister to have taken action to avoid that. But that’s where we are.
“The Prime Minister will talk about votes for 16 year olds, but the idea that they might be liable for their criminal actions, apparently there has to be a gap between that. And I think we as a country need to look at this.”
Expressing his outrage at the Southport attack and the apparent failings of the Prevent scheme which allowed Rudakubana to “slip through the net”, Barrett declared that the July 2024 killings were “evil”, and the details of the incident are “horrific”.
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Barrett said: “I just want to be absolutely unequivocal. This is evil. What we’re going to discover and the details that are going to come out are horrific.
“He didn’t just murder three beautiful, innocent children. He stabbed ten other people grotesquely, and he traumatised everybody who wasn’t stabbed.”
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When pressed by host Miriam Cates on Keir Starmer’s defence of the “information vacuum” following the attack, Barrett claimed that the country “doesn’t have an honest Prime Minister”.
He stated: “I don’t believe the Prime Minister, to be honest, that claim doesn’t stack up on any level. He says he couldn’t have told us in August that it was terrorism, and then he tells us in October that it’s terrorism – he knew back then.
“I’m afraid the only conclusion that a rational person can draw is that we don’t have an honest Prime Minister.”
Barrett added: “In the grand scheme of things, he’s [Rudakubana] avoiding a whole life tariff because of ten days. That seems to me a technicality.”
Barrett told GB News that Prime Minister Keir Starmer is ‘dishonest’
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Praising the “bravery” of Leanne Lucas and John Hayes, who were two adults stabbed in defence of the children in the Southport attack, Barrett called for the “heroes” to be honoured, following the sentencing.
Barrett concluded: “I think the two of them are absolute heroes, and we as a country should do something for Leanne and John. We should honour them, we should make them knights and dames.
“Rudakubana represents absolute evil, and they represent good. They are heroes in our society and we are lucky to have them.”
Starmer has defended his position on withholding information about the Southport killer. The Prime Minister insisted he was following “the law of the land” to prevent the case against Rudakubana from collapsing.
“You know and I know that it would not have been right to disclose those details,” Starmer told reporters. “The only losers if the details had been disclosed would be the victims and the families because it ran the risk the trial would collapse.”
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Donald Trump birthright citizenship order temporarily halted as judge labels move ‘blatantly unconstitutional’
Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship in the US has been blocked by a judge.
Judge John Coughenour has issued a temporary restraining order to clamp down on Donald Trump’s ban, which would have seen undocumented migrants in the US unable to register their children as American citizens.
Coughenour claimed the order was “blatantly unconstitutional”, and his intervention has seen the move halted for the next 14 days.
“I have been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case whether the question presented was as clear,” the judge said.
Judge John Coughenour has issued a temporary restraining order to clamp down on Donald Trump’s ban
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Keir Starmer ‘bending knee’ to Brussels as EU looks to undo Brexit with ‘disgraceful’ Customs Union deal
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “bending the knee” to Brussels as the European Union looks to strike a customs agreement with the UK.
The Prime Minister is under pressure to return Britain to the EU’s orbit after the EU’s new trade chief Maros Sefcovic stresseed such an agreement would represent membership of the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention (PEM).
PEM operates under common rules which enable parts, ingredients and materials for manufacturing supply chains to be sourced from across dozens of countries in Europe and North Africa tariff-free.
The suggestion, rejected by the previous Tory Governments, was touted during Sefcovic’s appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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The Prime Minister is unequioval about his determination to “reset” cross-Channel relations but continues to insist that this will not infringe on the UK’s decision to leave the Single Market or Customs Union.
Responding to Sefcovic’s comments, Shadow Foreign Secretary Dame Priti Patel said: “Labour’s programme of bending the knee to the EU is disgraceful.
“These latest reports that the Government might shackle us to the European Union are deeply concerning, and once again make clear that Keir Starmer and his chums are all too happy to put their ideology ahead of our national interest, no matter the cost.
“The Conservatives will always fight for the democratic freedoms the British public voted for, and will not stand idly by in the face of Labour’s great betrayal of our country.”
Starmer’s Government is reportedly holding consultations with business leaders over the benefits of PEM but no final decision has yet been made.
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Brexiteers have long warned that being part of a Customs Union would block the UK from signing independent Free Trade Agreements, including with the United States.
However, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey is already publicly calling for an official return to the Customs Union.
Davey, who is expected to call for the UK to rejoin the EU later down the line, argued it was needed to boost Britain’s economy and its ability to deal with the incoming Donald Trump presidency from a position of strength.
Sefcovic’s suggestion, rejected by the previous Tory Governments, was touted during his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The Brussels bureaucrat said the idea has not been “precisely formulated” by London yet and the “ball is in the UK’s court”.
Sefcovic also hinted at a full-scale veterinary agreement to reduce frictions on farming and food trade, an updating fisheries deal and mobility plan for under 30s.
European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic PASefcovic said it was hoped the scheme would “build bridges for the future for the European Union and the UK”.
“That was the idea,” he said. “[But] we’ve been a little bit surprised what kind of spin it got in the UK.
“It is not freedom of movement,” Sefcovic added. “We have been very clear what we’ve been proposing.”
Despite rejecting previous calls for a return of Freedom of Movement, Starmer could face pressure next month while attending a defence and security focused EU summit.
The Prime Minister is determined to “reset” cross-Channel relations but continues to insist that this will not infringe on the UK’s decision to leave the Single Market or Customs Union.
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And No10 has since left the door open to accepting Sefcovic’s PEM offer.
A Downing Street spokesman said: “The arrangement that’s been discussed is not a customs union.
“Our red line has always been that we will never join a single market, freedom of movement, but we’re just not going to get ahead of those discussions.”
However, MPs have already been exerting pressure on Starmer over under 30s being engaged in a free movement arrangement.
A 10-minute rule bill, introduced by Liberal Democrat MP James McCleary, will receive a second reading on July 25.
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Keir Starmer issues direct message to Southport community after Axel Rudakubana sentencing and vows action as he addresses ‘harrowing moment’
Sir Keir Starmer has branded Axel Rudakubana’s crimes “one of the most harrowing moments in our country’s history” in a direct message to the Southport community this evening.
Speaking after Rudakubana was sentenced to a minimum term of 51 years in prison, the Prime Minister said: “The thoughts of the entire nation are with the families and everyone affected by the unimaginable horrors that unfolded in Southport.
“No words will ever be able to capture the depth of their pain.
“I want to say directly to the survivors, families and community of Southport – you are not alone. We stand with you in your grief.
‘You are not alone. We stand with you in your grief,’ the Prime Minister said
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“What happened in Southport was an atrocity and as the judge has stated, this vile offender will likely never be released.
“After one of the most harrowing moments in our country’s history we owe it to these innocent young girls and all those affected to deliver the change that they deserve.”
Sarah Hammond, Chief Crown Prosecutor at the CPS’s Mersey-Cheshire branch, also paid tribute “to the victims and their families in this harrowing case” in a further statement on Thursday.
Calling Rudakubana’s crimes “dreadful”, Hammond said that the case “is one of the most harrowing that I, as the Chief Crown Prosecutor for this area, have ever come across”.
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Rudakubana was sentenced to a minimum term of 51 years in prison today
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“Axel Rudakubana is a murderer; utter devastation followed as he acted out a meticulously planned rampage of murder and violence,” she said.
“His purpose was to kill and he targeted the youngest, most vulnerable – no doubt in order to spread the greatest level of fear and outrage, which he did.
“Three days ago, he pleaded guilty to all 16 counts against him, saving the families of the victims the trauma of reliving the events of that day in a trial.
“But he has never expressed any remorse, only cowardice, in his refusal to face the families whose lives he has forever changed.
Axel Rudakubana, as seen in a court sketch from his sentencing hearing on January 23
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“This has been an extremely difficult case for the whole prosecution team and police officers at Merseyside Police. They have had to work through some harrowing footage and evidence.
“I would like to thank them for their perseverance, compassion and determination to achieve justice for the victims and their families.
“This sentencing brings to an end this case, but the events of that day will leave a tragic legacy that will unfortunately endure for many years.”
The victims and their families “have shown tremendous dignity and composure in the face of unbelievable horror”, she added.
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