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Is this that dude Starmer’s doing?
Surely the courts are totally separate from politics?
Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said.
Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the UK's counter-extremism strategy to determine how best to tackle threats posed by harmful ideologies.
The analysis will look at hatred of women as one of the ideological trends that the government says is gaining traction.
Ms Cooper said there has been a rise in extremism "both online and on our streets" that "frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy".
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Asked whether the plan posed a risk to public safety in respect of policing resources being diverted, or more prisoners being bailed, Sir Keir said the government was making "really tough decisions, and nobody wants to take them".
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The Sunday Times reported Lord Waheed Alli, a television executive who has donated to Labour over the last 20 years, had been given a pass granting him access to Downing Street despite not having an official government role.
Labour said he did attend a small number of political meetings with no civil servants, and said he gave back his pass at the end of July.
A government source said Lord Alli having a pass was "all entirely within the rules, and not unusual".
Shadow security minister and Tory leadership candidate Tom Tugendhat said: "The prime minister and the chancellor spent years in opposition preaching about standards in public life. Now in government, the moment the votes were counted, their story has changed and we're seeing the same old Labour.
"The prime minister has serious questions to answer. Who approved the decision to give a Labour donor a pass to Downing Street? Was the prime minister aware of this decision? Will he provide a list of all the meetings that the donor attended, and the subjects discussed?
"The British people expect answers and the prime minister should provide them.
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Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
Name of donor: Lord Waheed Alli
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000 for the private office of the Leader of the Opposition
Date received: 9 October 2023
Date accepted: 9 October 2023
Donor status: individual
(Registered 19 October 2023)
Name of donor: Lord Waheed Ali
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £6,000 for the private office of the Leader of the Opposition
Date received: 21 February 2024
Date accepted: 21 February 2024
Donor status: individual
(Registered 26 February 2024)
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A Labour MP rents out flats with black mould and ant infestations, the BBC has discovered.
Jas Athwal, the newly-elected MP for Ilford South, owns 15 rental flats, making him the biggest landlord in the House of Commons.
In one block of seven flats owned by Mr Athwal nearly half the tenants said they had to regularly clean their bathroom ceilings to remove mould.
Mr Athwal has now also admitted his flats do not have the correct property licenses required under a scheme he introduced as Redbridge Council leader.
He had earlier claimed to the BBC that he had complied with the rules.
Mr Athwal said he was "shocked" and "profoundly sorry" to hear of residents' issues, which he had not been aware of due to the properties being managed by an agency, and promised repairs and maintenance will be completed "swiftly".
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