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Dominic Raab had to reach back over 10 years and find a case which would be dealt with differently today because of the multiple changes to the law since then to make the deportation of people with criminal convictions easier
Actually, Raab appears to have copied this example from Theresa May's 2011 #catgate speech! Can't they get any new tunes?
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Dominic Raab is the new Theresa May tribute act
I want to be serious about this for a moment, as I think there's something interesting here. When I started blogging and then tweeting about human rights and the politics of human rights just over a decade ago there were almost no lawyers on social media... /1
At the time, there were some brilliant lawyers doing social media - e.g. @davidallengreen @carlgardner @Familoo @TheSmallPlaces @Charonqc - but it wasn't a 'scene' which journalists and politicians paid much attention to. /2
I think that #Catgate (2011) changed that as all of a sudden journalists started paying attention to lawyers who seemed to know what they were talking about and could explain these complex issues which werre becoming more politically charged /3 ukhumanrightsblog.com/2011/10/06/wha…
