Steven Barrett

Sir Keir Starmer's war with Olly Robbins just went to a whole new level The government has tonight taken the pretty extraordinary step of publishing what appears to be* a new legal opinion on the legislation surrounding national security vetting Allies of Robbins have cited the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act, which states that ministers do not oversee the national security vetting system Robbins is using this as part of his argument for not informing Starmer that Mandelson had failed his initial security vetting. The process, they say, is 'rightly independent' - something ministers have also said in the Commons But the government appears to have commissioned new legal advice which states: 'No law stops civil servants sensibly flagging UK Security Vetting recommendations' The government appears to have commissioned an ad hoc legal opinion as ammunition for Starmer ahead of his appearance in the Commons tomorrow Allies of Robbins point out two things. 1) This appears to be new legal advice - it didn't exist when Mandelson was appointed 2) It doesn't demonstrate that Robbins *should* have informed Starmer. It is effectively passive They say that the government appears to be attempting to retrofit a legal opinion to make Starmer's argument against Robbins * I say appears to be as it doesn't seem to have been signed off by a government lawyer, but that's v much the suggestion I'm getting from inside Govt

I tried to take my children to a playground in London earlier. The perimeter was swarming with foreign men smoking weed and drinking. Pop up tents, a knackered sofa, drugs and alcohol all within feet of society’s most vulnerable. It’s a disaster waiting to happen. But nothing is being done. Right now, Britain seems to be completely rudderless. Tens of millions of ordinary Brits all scratching their heads like what the hell is going on. The usual leavers and actions that citizens expect, not as a luxury or a nice to have but as an absolute minimum, are absent. Police - nowhere. Deportations - nowhere Border control - nowhere Sensible immigration polices like we had for 60+ years post world war 2 - nowhere. Just foreign tramps urinating 15 feet from a kids park while getting high and ogling passers by. The good news is there is a solution and it is a simple one. Detain, Deport.

I enjoyed her cancelling me for bringing up Tice’s tax affairs after answering her questions directly. The best thing was her defence of Tice and insistence that she was a journalist. What a snowflake! ❄️ What a carcrash interviewer, just letting good GB News viewers down 🤯

I enjoyed her cancelling me for bringing up Tice’s tax affairs after answering her questions directly. The best thing was her defence of Tice and insistence that she was a journalist. What a snowflake! ❄️ What a carcrash interviewer, just letting good GB News viewers down 🤯