{"id":116622,"date":"2018-07-25T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=116622&preview=true&preview_id=116622"},"modified":"2018-07-25T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T08:32:00","slug":"political-headlines-brexit-british-irish-conference-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-headlines-brexit-british-irish-conference-treason\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Headlines – Brexit, British-Irish conference, treason laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Political Headlines includes May taking back control over Brexit negotiations, the British-Irish intergovernmental conference and calls to update treason laws. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

May takes back control of Brexit negotiations<\/strong>
\nThe Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a> that Theresa May has taken control of the Brexit negotiations, supported by the Cabinet Office Europe Unit, effectively \u2018sidelining\u2019 the new Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and his department and leaving him with responsibility for domestic preparations, no-deal planning and legislation. The BBC says<\/a> that Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed that the NHS is planning to stockpile medicines and other products in the event of a \u2018no deal\u2019 Brexit.<\/p>\n

British and Irish ministers hold first intergovernmental conference for over a decade<\/strong>
\nThe BBC reports<\/a> that British and Irish ministers are meeting in London at the first session of their intergovernmental conference since 2007. It adds that the conference is popular with nationalists, but that unionists are more suspicious of it and that the Government has been resisting Irish requests for it be convened for \u2018many months\u2019.<\/p>\n

Treason laws should be updated to prosecute jihadis<\/strong>
\nThe Daily Telegraph<\/em> says<\/a> that the former Home Secretary Amber Rudd, former head of MI5 Lord Evans and former Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge have called for the UK\u2019s treason laws to be updated and used to prosecute jihadis who have fought in Syria, backing a report by Policy Exchange. However, the paper adds that the newly-appointed Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, has advocated a more liberal approach to returning jihadis.<\/p>\n

Sarah Champion given increased security after death threats<\/strong>
\nThe Times<\/em> reveals<\/a> that Labour MP Sarah Champion has been given increased security after she received death threats. Champion has been accused by activists in Rotherham, her constituency, of \u2018industrial-scale racism\u2019 after she condemned the sexual abuse of girls by British Pakistani men, whose \u2018common ethnic heritage\u2019 she highlighted.<\/p>\n

Labour demands to know if Government blacklists are still in place<\/strong>
\nThe Guardian<\/em> says<\/a> that Labour has called on the Government to confirm whether secret blacklists are still in place, monitoring the political views of civil servants, trades unionists and councillors. This follows the release of papers by the National Archives showing that the Thatcher government and MI5 compiled lists of those seen as subversive or threats.<\/p>\n

Campaigners warn new planning rules threaten greenbelt land<\/strong>
\nThe Daily Telegraph<\/em> warns<\/a> that greenbelt land has been put at risk of development under the Government\u2019s new National Planning Policy Framework. Under the policy, councils will lose some of their ability to control development if house building falls below 75% of Government targets, but the Campaign to Protect Rural England has warned that house builders will be able to game this system by sitting on land.<\/p>\n

Taxpayers could face a \u2018retirement levy\u2019 to fund social care<\/strong>
\nAccording<\/a> to The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, the Government is considering a \u2018retirement levy\u2019, under which taxpayers would pay a lump sum to the Government to fund the cost of residential and social care in old age. A source close to Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock told the paper that \u2018nothing is off the table\u2019.<\/p>\n

Government tries to bury bad news on last day of Parliament<\/strong>
\nThe Daily Mirror<\/em> highlights<\/a> fifteen pieces of \u2018bad news\u2019 which the Government issued on the last day of Parliament making it \u2018next to impossible\u2019 to properly scrutinise them. These include lower pay rises for public sector staff than experts recommended, the sale of the home of the Red Arrows, delays to school funding plans and court closures.<\/p>\n

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Today’s Political Headlines includes the latest Brexit discussions, Gauke’s call for prison rehabilitation, crimes leading to charges and calls for two Tories to quit in pairing row.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":412,"featured_media":116626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7367,3694,7271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116624,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116622\/revisions\/116624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}