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Good news & kudos to Times journalists.

But why had Ministers approved blanket charges, regardless of individual humanitarian cases?
Ministers can’t claim didn’t know about forced marriage when they made the policy.

10 years ago Ministers used forced marriage as excuse to ban people under 21 from living together in UK, where one partner wasn’t British. supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uks…
Supreme Court didn’t accept that & quashed the Immigration Rule on 2011.

For UK Gov though, opposing forced marriage justified breaking up genuine marriages of British citizens and didn’t justify paying for British citizens who are actual victims to come home. 🤔
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To keep right-wingers onside, May has played along with Britain’s nationalist fantasy. (Maybe she even believes it.)

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