{"id":117146,"date":"2018-08-22T09:58:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=117146&preview=true&preview_id=117146"},"modified":"2018-08-22T09:58:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:58:53","slug":"political-headlines-gove-bans-puppy-farming-javids-windrush-apology-and-criminals-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-headlines-gove-bans-puppy-farming-javids-windrush-apology-and-criminals-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Headlines – Gove bans puppy farming, Javid’s Windrush apology and criminals released"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Political Headlines include Gove’s ban on puppy farming, Javid’s Windrush apology overshadowed, botched criminal reforms and the EU’s monitoring of the UK’s access to financial markets after Brexit.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Gove bans puppy farming<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The\u00a0Daily Mirror<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0celebrating<\/a>\u00a0the victory of the Lucy\u2019s Law campaign to end puppy farming, which it had supported. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Michael Gove has announced that the Government is to ban the sale of puppies by pet shops, online dealers and third parties, claiming that too many pets \u2018have been brought up in squalid circumstances, in circumstances of pain and suffering and misery which should never be inflicted on any living thing\u2019.<\/p>\n

Javid\u2019s Windrush apology overshadowed by new removal and detention figures<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0that an apology by Home Secretary Sajid Javid to 18 members of the Windrush generation who were \u2018most likely\u2019 treated \u2018wrongly\u2019 by the Home Office has been overshadowed by new figures that reveal that 164 Windrush people may have been wrongly detained or removed, although the precise details of these cases have not been determined.<\/p>\n

Suspected serious criminals released without conditions after botched reforms<\/span>
\n<\/strong>According<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Times<\/em>, the use of police bail has fallen by 90% year-on-year, leading to high-risk suspects being \u2018released under investigation\u2019 without conditions. The paper attributes the changes to \u2018poorly planned\u2019 and \u2018rushed\u2019 Government reforms, described by an unnamed senior police officer as \u2018a disaster\u2019.<\/p>\n

EU will strictly monitor UK\u2019s access to financial markets after Brexit<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The\u00a0Financial Times<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that the EU official responsible for financial services, Valdis Dombrovskis has warned that the bloc will strictly monitor the UK\u2019s right of access to its market after Brexit. He said that the EU was not offering the UK \u2018super equivalence\u2019 and that assessments would need to be conducted \u2018sector by sector and legislation by legislation\u2019.\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0adds<\/a>\u00a0that the UK\u2019s no-deal impact paper for financial services is expected to be published in the first batch, due on Thursday, although this could change.<\/p>\n

Corbyn accuses May of abandoning \u2018moral duty to refugees\u2019<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0that Theresa May has been criticised by Jeremy Corbyn for abandoning the UK\u2019s \u2018moral duty to refugees\u2019, after the outsourcing firm Serco threatened to evict up to 330 refugees in Glasgow. He will meet some of the families affected by the firm\u2019s action.<\/p>\n

EU citizens will not be \u2018turfed out\u2019 in no-deal Brexit<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The BBC\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has promised to \u2018move swiftly\u2019 to safeguard the status of EU citizens during a no-deal Brexit, saying that it was \u2018inconceivable\u2019 that they\u2019d be \u2018turfed out\u2019.\u00a0According<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Times<\/em>, Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary Greg Clark has been holding urgent talks with Irish officials in an attempt to secure Northern Ireland\u2019s electricity supply in the event of a no-deal Brexit, in order to avoid having to publish contingency plans involving the use of generators.<\/p>\n

Low tax councils to be hit hardest by funding changes<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The\u00a0Financial Times<\/em>\u00a0carries<\/a>\u00a0details of new research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies which shows that a redistribution of central government funding for local authorities could force boroughs with low council tax rates to bear more of the cost of services, while benefiting councils with high tax rates.<\/p>\n

Chris Williamson praises pro-Assad blogger<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0that the Corbyn-supporting Labour MP Chris Williamson has \u2018sparked fury\u2019 by praising Vanessa Beeley, a pro-Assad blogger, at the Beautiful Days festival this weekend. Around a year after the MP Jo Cox was murdered, Beeley described her as \u2018a warmongering Blairite and White Helmet Al Qaeda advocate\u2019.<\/p>\n

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