Two days after Sunak fires Braverman, predicted in the Guardian, the Supreme Court has ruled the Rwanda Scheme to be illegal. See below for details.
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The EU & Immigration
The Council decided at an emergency meeting, to spend more money on its border enforcement. The likely consequence of this is more deaths at sea of refugees.
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Empire Windrush Scandal
The scandal, which broke in April 2018, saw the UK government apologise for deportation threats made to Commonwealth citizens’ children. Despite living and working in the UK for decades, many were told they were there illegally because of a lack of official paperwork.
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1st Steps
I have been thinking about Brexit again over the last few days, I issued my personal short term manifesto, and read the British Chamber of Commerce’s puff in the FT. I comment on the one benefit identified so far, Crown logos on pint glasses. Otherwise, here are some notes,
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Citizenship
Here is a note on citizenship post brexit. I deal with voting rights in this note. Otherwise feel free to read on …
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Nationality & Borders Bill
Terrible Law, on refugee & asylum seeker rights and citizenship. There’s a reason that Human Rights prohibit making people stateless. Here are my notes …
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Further reading on making Brexit work. On vaccine availability, politics, immigration and the future of the EU conference, and Trade. Enjoy!
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Economic Migration and Brexit
I was asked if I wanted to work in Germany, and sadly took too long to say, “Yes”. I was wondering what impact Brexit would have on such an opportunity. If the UK, agrees the Govt’s withdrawal agreement, there is a two year transitional agreement, which I think means that “Freedom of Movement” will continue…
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Settled Status
What exactly are the rights of EU citizens after Brexit? Here are my notes.
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UK Immigration
I was thinking about the Brexit vote and the way that Immigration came to dominate the debate; there were a couple of factually based articles which examined the numbers, and some economic analysis which argues that like a deficit, immigration is a good thing. Anyway, despite the fact that evidence is of no use in…
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