BREAKING: The High Court rules that the Government's anti-protest legislation is unlawful, in a major victory for campaigners Liberty

The Court found Suella Braverman had lowered the threshold for police to intervene to even cover protests with 'normal' levels of disruption.

Tree of the Day

Britain relies on the EU for one third of its food supply. The UK’s new Brexit border checks, bringing costs, delays and red tape, mean that many European suppliers will just not bother selling to the UK anymore. They’ll get better returns elsewhere.

‘Stephen Watson, who leads the Daily Mail Police Division, gave his most extensive public comments so far on the investigation into Angela Rayner.’ theguardian.com/politics/artic…

An excellent speech from my brilliant colleague Emma Hardy MP in the House of Commons today.

The Conservatives are too weak to put the water companies under special measures.

Labour stands ready to deliver.

VCs of more than two dozen northern universities of all types have written to the PM this morning, warning visa cuts would damage regional economies and “choke off” the prospects of thousands of young people

One day there will be a public inquiry into this scandal and people will shake their heads in wonder that it happened in the UK.

And meanwhile, after a rare day behaving with a bit of decency and dignity Sunak is now back to grubby politics, off for a day trip with a fellow right winger to flog a dead horse and have a few cheerleaders for the trip …

Exclusive:

David Cameron has written to Rishi Sunak warning that universities will face job losses and even closure if he pushes ahead with curbs to graduate visas

Sunak is weighing up measures to ensure only ‘best and brightest’ come to U.K.

Cameron: ‘One of the consequences

Asked about Sir Brian Langstaff’s criticism of Rishi Sunak’s government for delays to setting up compensation scheme, Cabinet minister Mel Stride shifts to talking about the number of pages in the report

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Boris Johnson promised Brexit would give us the 'world's most effective border'

New report finds:

- Brexit border checks cost us £4.7 billion
- £7.5 bn a year in costs added to firms
- Hundreds of millions wasted on facilities that were never used
bylinetimes.com/2024/05/20/bre…

You need to read this.

When Robert Jenrick isn’t drinking the tears of refugee children, he’s accepting substantial donations from Israeli and Australian billionaires.

Brilliant piecd by Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.substack- one to follow. Solid investigative journalism.

bylinetimes.com/2024/05/17/the…

I have a prediction competition for the 2024 European Football Championships for Brain Tumour Research.

More details in the video below

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Ofcom is really quite cross with GB News and is seriously thinking about beginning to consider what to do about it theguardian.com/media/article/…

Extraordinarily open interview. ⬇️

Tree of the Day. The cows love it …

About to do one of my regular(ish) chats with Pat Kenny Newstalk

When I was first elected: Schools in areas with illegal air pollution levels: almost 500.

Now: Schools in areas with illegal air pollution levels: less than 20.

And because of our policies to clean up London's dirty air, it'll soon be zero.

Gov knows exactly the issue they have caused but there is deafening silence on this. Two thirds of all local authorities are in deficit on the school grant to the tune of £1bn. But look the other way at our new Sex Ed guidance everyone….
Fiona Millar