{"id":117088,"date":"2018-08-20T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=117088&preview=true&preview_id=117088"},"modified":"2018-08-20T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:58:28","slug":"political-headlines-hmp-birmingham-eu-migrants-corbyns-takeaway-and-syrian-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-headlines-hmp-birmingham-eu-migrants-corbyns-takeaway-and-syrian-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Headlines – HMP Birmingham, EU migrants, Corbyn’s takeaway and Syrian aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Political Headlines include the Government taking control of HMP Birmingham, EU migrants to be offered the right to stay in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Corbyn’s takeaway with the Hamas leader, and ending aid to rebel-held areas of Syria.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Government takes control of \u2018violent\u2019 Birmingham prison<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Times<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that the Government has taken control of HMP Birmingham from G4S. The move follows the Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke’s call for the Government to open an independent inquiry into \u2018appalling violence and squalor\u2019 at the prison. He also warned of drug use, bullying and loss of control by prison staff. This is only the second time that the Government has taken over a private prison.<\/p>\n

EU migrants to be offered right to stay in no-deal Brexit<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Daily Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0has\u00a0obtained details<\/a>\u00a0of the UK\u2019s policy towards EU migrants in the event of a no-deal Brexit. According to leaked cabinet papers, the UK will try to take the \u2018moral high ground\u2019 by allowing them to continue to live in the UK, use the NHS and claim benefits. The plan is to be set out in one of the no-deal technical papers, the first of which will be published on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Corbyn had takeaway dinner with Hamas chief<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Sun<\/em>\u00a0reveals<\/a>\u00a0that Jeremy Corbyn admitted in a column for the\u00a0Morning Star<\/em>\u00a0in 2010 that he had held a \u2018long meeting\u2019 and a takeaway dinner with Khaled Mashal, the Hamas leader, who the paper claims is a \u2018renowned Holocaust denier\u2019.\u00a0Polling<\/a>\u00a0conducted for the paper finds that 47% think Labour had a serious problem with anti-Semitism, with 27% thinking that Corbyn is an anti-Semite.\u00a0The Times<\/em>\u00a0adds<\/a>\u00a0that Labour MP Chris Williamson has been reprimanded following a complaint that he had belittled anti-Semitism accusations.<\/p>\n

Aid to rebel-held areas of Syria to end<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Times<\/em>\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0that the UK is to halt its support to the opposition in Syria, admitting that the rebels have lost the conflict. The Foreign Office and the Department for International Development have decided that the aid programmes are unsustainable, with the last rebel-held area expected to be attacked by President Assad\u2019s forces imminently.<\/p>\n

Adonis warns Labour will be \u2018finished\u2019 if it backs Brexit in an election<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that Lord Adonis has claimed that the Labour Party would be \u2018finished\u2019 if it backs Brexit at the next election. New polling shows that the Conservatives would be 4% ahead of Labour in a snap election if Labour adopted an anti-Brexit position, but 9% ahead if Labour was pro-Brexit, with the Liberal Democrats just 2% behind Labour.<\/p>\n

MPs call for increased staffing budget because of Brexit<\/span>
\n<\/strong>In an\u00a0exclusive<\/a>,\u00a0The Daily Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0claims that MPs have been lobbying the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) for an increase in their staffing budget because Brexit is increasing their \u2018workloads\u2019. The former Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, Sir Alistair Graham, has warned that the system is \u2018open to abuse\u2019 and that Ipsa should be \u2018very cautious about raising budget\u2019.<\/p>\n

Tory MPs express entryism fears<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that Conservative MPs including Anna Soubry, George Freeman, Nicky Morgan and Phillip Lee have expressed concerns about entryism in the party after Leave.EU urged its supporters to join so that they could vote for Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees-Mogg in the next party leadership election.<\/p>\n

Wright considers addressing conference as a hologram<\/span>
\n<\/strong>According<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Times<\/em>, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Jeremy Wright is considering addressing the Conservative Party conference as a hologram, under plans that he inherited from his predecessor Matt Hancock, designed to highlight the work being done by British businesses with the technology.<\/p>\n

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