Palestine Motion is a ‘violent organisation’ that has dedicated ‘vital damage’, says No 10
Palestine Motion is a “violent organisation” that has dedicated “vital damage,” Downing Avenue mentioned.
Requested about individuals arrested as a part of protests linked to the group, the prime minister’s official spokesperson mentioned:
We’ve mentioned that many individuals could not but know the truth of this organisation, however the assessments are very clear: this can be a violent organisation that has dedicated violence, vital damage, in depth legal harm, and as I say, it has met the assessments as set out underneath the Terrorism Act to be proscribed.
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‘No 10’s declare that Palestine Motion is a violent organisation is fake,’ says Palestine Motion co-founder
Responding to the statement from Downing Street earlier, Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Motion, mentioned: “Yvette Cooper and No 10’s declare that Palestine Motion is a violent organisation is fake and defamatory.
“Spraying crimson paint on warfare planes just isn’t terrorism. Disrupting Israel’s largest weapons producer Elbit Techniques by trespassing on their websites in Britain just isn’t terrorism. It’s the Israeli Protection Drive and all those that arm and allow their warfare crimes who’re the terrorists.”
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Downing Avenue defended the controversial proscription of Palestine Motion, labelling the protest group as “violent”, with the justice minister saying supporters of the “terrorist organisation” will likely be subjected to the “full drive of the legislation”. No 10 mentioned Palestine Motion has dedicated “vital damage” in addition to legal harm after greater than 500 arrests had been made at a protest linked to the group in London over the weekend.
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Kemi Badenoch appeared to recommend the organising of “camps” when talking about doable alternate options to utilizing motels to deal with asylum seekers whereas out in Essex on a media occasion.
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The schooling secretary, Bridget Phillipson, reaffirmed her dedication to attempt to cut back the variety of kids lacking lessons at faculties, and pledged to make a precedence of tackling British white working-class younger individuals falling behind their friends within the yr forward.
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The jail inhabitants of England and Wales has jumped to the very best quantity in almost a yr and is nearing document ranges, regardless of the early launch of tens of 1000’s of offenders, official figures confirmed.
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Overseas criminals from 15 extra international locations, together with India, Bulgaria and Australia, face deportation earlier than they’ve an opportunity to attraction in opposition to the choice to take away them, in a widening of the federal government’s “deport first, attraction later” scheme.
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Now we have some extra particulars on Downing Avenue’s views about Palestine Motion, courtesy of the PA information company (see publish at 13.40 for extra feedback from No 10).
Requested on Monday whether or not the federal government was reconsidering its determination to designate the group as a terrorist organisation after the five hundred+ arrests on Saturday, the prime minister’s official spokesperson mentioned:
No. Palestine Motion was proscribed primarily based on robust safety recommendation following severe assaults the group has dedicated involving violence, vital damage and in depth legal harm.
Downing Avenue mentioned the Joint Terrorism Evaluation Centre – an impartial authority primarily based inside MI5 – had discovered the organisation had carried out three separate acts of terrorism.
The federal government is unable to supply “the entire element at this stage” however the proscription has been made by a “strong, evidence-based course of”, it mentioned.
The Met final week confirmed the primary three expenses in England and Wales for offences in opposition to part 13 of the Terrorism Act regarding Palestine Motion.
Critics say the proscription of the protest group stomps on the general public’s proper to freedom of speech and to protest, in addition to goals to stifle professional demonstrations in opposition to Israel’s warfare on Gaza that the UK authorities has been accused of being complicit in.
In an earlier post we talked about how the Dwelling Workplace introduced it had added 15 new international locations to its “deport now, attraction later” scheme, that means convicted international criminals from 23 international locations will likely be deported earlier than their human rights appeals have been heard.
Kemi Badenoch was requested about this whereas talking to journalists in Essex this afternoon. Sky Information quoted her as having mentioned:
I feel it’s very fascinating that … after we had been deporting criminals, Sir Keir Starmer was writing letters making an attempt to cease our deportations. I’ll consider it after I see it.
That is the kind of stuff that they need to have been doing on day one. The truth that they tried to cease deportations earlier than implies that I don’t actually consider it.
The federal government has launched 26,000 prisoners because it got here to energy, launched them early, there at the moment are extra criminals on our streets. That’s what I’m actually fearful about.
Conservative shadow international secretary Priti Patel accused ministers of making an attempt to “cowl up” the price of ceding the Chagos Islands – formally generally known as the British Indian Ocean Territory – to Mauritius, accusing them of utilizing an “accountancy trick” to cost the deal at £3.4bn, as an alternative of the £34.7bn determine produced by the federal government actuary’s division, as revealed within the Telegraph’s report.
The price was lowered by civil servants utilizing inflation estimates over 99 years, then reportedly lowered once more by between 2.5 and three.5% per yr underneath the Treasury’s social time choice price accountancy methodology used for long-term initiatives.
“We’ve all recognized it’s a horrible take care of big prices to hard-pressed British taxpayers,” Patel wrote within the Telegraph.
“However for months, ministers in public and parliament have sought to cowl up the true quantities.”
Patel mentioned that “as an alternative of proudly owning as much as the prices, Labour has used an accountancy trick to assert the quantity was solely £3.4bn – nonetheless an enormous waste of cash”.
Labour has mentioned beforehand that the Conservative authorities wasted £700m of taxpayers’ cash on the failed Rwanda deportation scheme, which survived the tenure of three former prime ministers and was overseen by 4 former house secretaries, together with Patel.
The Telegraph reported that the federal government’s Chagos Islands deal will value ten occasions greater than Keir Starmer beforehand claimed. A freedom of data request response revealed that the price of freely giving the islands to Mauritius is estimated at £34.7bn, a lot larger than the £3.4bn determine the prime minister has beforehand cited in public, based on the report.
A No 10 spokesperson, nonetheless, mentioned immediately that the deal will value “a mean of £100m a yr”, including that it will complete lower than £3bn.
The spokesperson instructed journalists that this “compares favourably with different base agreements” and equates to “lower than 0.2%” of the defence price range.
Below the settlement, Britain cedes management over the islands to Mauritius however leases the most important one, Diego Garcia, for 99 years to proceed working a joint US-UK navy base there.
Downing Avenue mentioned the deal was a “authorized necessity” and backed by the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, that are a part of an intelligence-sharing partnership with the UK.
Badenoch suggests organising ‘camps’ might be an alternative choice to asylum seeker motels
Kemi Badenoch appeared to recommend the organising of “camps” when talking about doable alternate options to utilizing motels to deal with asylum seekers.
As she met members of the group in Epping, Essex, the Conservative get together chief mentioned: “We’ve received to show issues round in a short time. We can not use guidelines from 1995, or 2005, and even 2015 for 2025.
“Our world is altering in a short time, and we have to adapt to it.”
Badenoch mentioned: “Is it doable for us to arrange camps and police that, quite than bringing all of this problem into communities?
“As a celebration, we have to additionally hear from the group about what you suppose the options are. We don’t have all of the solutions; it’s essential that we guarantee that the group is a part of the issue solved.”
Vladimir Putin ought to by no means be trusted “so far as you possibly can throw him,” Downing Avenue mentioned.
Requested whether or not Keir Starmer thought the Russian chief might be trusted in peace talks over the way forward for Ukraine, the prime minister’s official spokesman mentioned: “By no means belief president Putin so far as you possibly can throw him, however we clearly will assist Ukraine.
“We’ll clearly assist president Trump and European nations as we enter these negotiations.
“However it’s precisely why we’ve been main this work on the coalition of the prepared, as a result of any ceasefire, as I say, can not simply be a chance for president Putin to go away, re-arm, restrengthen, after which go once more.
“So we’re not going to go away it to belief. We’re going to make sure that we’re ready such that we obtain a ceasefire.
Palestine Motion is a ‘violent organisation’ that has dedicated ‘vital damage’, says No 10
Palestine Motion is a “violent organisation” that has dedicated “vital damage,” Downing Avenue mentioned.
Requested about individuals arrested as a part of protests linked to the group, the prime minister’s official spokesperson mentioned:
We’ve mentioned that many individuals could not but know the truth of this organisation, however the assessments are very clear: this can be a violent organisation that has dedicated violence, vital damage, in depth legal harm, and as I say, it has met the assessments as set out underneath the Terrorism Act to be proscribed.
Starmer ‘gravely involved’ about focusing on of journalists in Gaza
Prime minister Keir Starmer is “gravely involved” concerning the repeated focusing on of journalists in Gaza, his spokesperson mentioned on Monday, after 5 reporters had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Israel’s navy mentioned it focused and killed distinguished Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif, alleging he had headed a Hamas militant cell and was concerned in rocket assaults on Israel.
Al Jazeera, which is funded by the Qatari authorities, rejected the assertion, and earlier than his dying, Al Sharif had additionally rejected such claims by Israel.
“We’re gravely involved by the repeated focusing on of journalists in Gaza,” Starmer’s spokesperson instructed reporters.
“Reporters overlaying conflicts are afforded safety underneath worldwide humanitarian legislation, and journalists should have the ability to report independently, with out concern, and Israel should guarantee journalists can perform their work safely.”
Requested concerning the declare that one of many journalists was linked to Hamas, Starmer’s spokesperson mentioned: “That needs to be investigated completely and independently, however we’re gravely involved by the repeated focusing on of journalists”.
Donald Trump “clearly does respect girls” however the US president can generally seem as a “little bit of a chauvinist”, Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin has mentioned.
Requested about whether or not Reform UK had discovered itself “aligning” with Trump, Pochin instructed the PA information company: “This get together just isn’t aligned with Donald Trump.
“Donald Trump does what he does over the pond, and we do what we do.
“And when Nigel [Farage] turns into the prime minister in 2029, then you will notice a Reform authorities which is dedicated to the security and the safety of girls and women on this nation.
“And the opposite factor I might say is, Donald Trump definitely comes throughout at occasions, after I take a look at him by the tv or the media, as probably a little bit of a chauvinist, or no matter.
“However take a look at his group. I imply, his press secretary [Karoline Leavitt] is superior – can’t keep in mind her title – however he has a number of very senior girls in his group.
“So really, he clearly does respect girls and promotes girls in his group, as Nigel could be very a lot doing, as you’ve seen immediately, with 4 senior girls internet hosting this press convention.”
