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Sep 10, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Statement from @mhclg on COVID secure marshals:

"Local authorities are best placed to determine the model of deployment and responsibilities of marshals in their areas."

Local authorities to me this morning:

"Huh?"
I'm also told that "numbers, recruitment, and remuneration" for these COVID marshals are for local authorities to decide.

And yet local authorities have not been given any information on extra funding for these roles, if any.

Suffice to say without extra money, no marshals.
Latest from No. 10 on COVID marshals:

- No extra money for them
- Up to councils to recruit them and decide what they do
- No powers to issue fines or any enforcement

Sounds awfully like it was a nice line in a speech, & any details are just being outsourced to councils.

@LBC
The COVID marshals farce (cntd)

No. 10 has pointed to councils like Leeds as an example.

Leeds Council Cabinet Member @Jonathan_Pryor tells me:

"The Govt is going to have to pay for this. We're not in a position to be hiring several more people with a remit we're not sure of."
Boris Johnson last night: "We will boost the enforcement capacity of local authorities by introducing COVID-secure marshals..."

Downing Street spokesman today: "They won't have powers to issue fines. It's for the police if there's enforcement action which needs to be taken."

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Mar 8, 2023
I’m afraid Nick Robinson on @BBCr4today rather let Suella Braverman get away with it this morning.

He tried to pin her down on the lack of safe legal routes to the UK. She referenced the UN resettlement scheme.

But that is not relevant to the discussion. A short 🧵
It has to do with the distinction between refugees and asylum seekers. They are often fleeing very similar situations. But there’s a key difference.

Refugees are already legally recognised. Asylum seekers are not, and must make a claim. It is their human right to do so.
The UN resettlement scheme that Braverman referenced *only deals with legally recognised refugees*.

Often from camps in neighbouring countries to the one they’re fleeing.

People who come to the UK via this route are already recognised and do not enter the asylum system.
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Mar 6, 2023
NEW: Now that Wayne Couzens’ court proceedings have ended, @policeconduct have published their full report into a WhatsApp group of Met officers that he was part of, which shared racist, sexist and homophobic content.

A warning. Deeply offensive content

policeconduct.gov.uk/sites/default/…
Two of the members of the WhatsApp group, Joel Borders and Jonathan Cobban, were sentenced to prison last year.

They and four other officers were dismissed for gross misconduct.

Some examples of the messages follow.

Once again, a content warning.
A discussion on the WhatsApp group between Wayne Couzens, Joel Borders and Jonathan Cobban about Hounslow is truly eye opening in its open, virulent racism.
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Mar 6, 2023
Am at the Old Bailey today for the sentencing of Sarah Everard’s killer, Wayne Couzens.

He is already spending the rest of his life in prison, but will be further sentenced for three incidents of flashing.

The last of those occured just days before he murdered Sarah.
The sentencing is underway.

Couzens is appearing via video link from HMP Frankland, where he is serving his whole life sentence.

He is wearing a grey, prison issue tracksuit, and has a long grey beard.

The prosecution are setting out the facts of the case.
The first incident occured in woodlands in Kent, on 13th November 2020. A lone female cyclist was on a narrow rural lane, and Couzens stepped out, totally naked.

He proceeded to pleasure himself whilst looking at her.

She cycled on, and reported it to police.
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Jun 13, 2022
You can watch today's Court of Appeal hearing on the Rwanda policy live on YouTube, here:

The central argument in the appeal, currently being put forward by Raza Husain QC, is that Mr Justice Swift "erred in law" in his judgement on Friday, when he denied the request for a ban on Tuesday's flight to Rwanda.
The Court of Appeal has just heard that there are now only 11 people due to be on tomorrow's flight to Rwanda.

Today's @thetimes report is raised as evidence that it may even be in single figures.
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May 20, 2022
The NI Protocol, according to @SpeakerPelosi, must be kept because it "preserves the important progress and stability forged by the [GFA] accords."

Any US journalists want to ask her from me how she squares that with the fact the very institutions it "forged" aren't operating?
Like. It should be painfully apparent to anyone who is actually observing the situation in Stormont with a modicum of objectivity, that far from preserving the stability forged by the GFA, the Protocol is actually actively undermining it.
I say once again, I am not taking a position on whether the Protocol is desirable, or whether the DUP and others are right to be boycotting Stormont.

The fact is that they are. And they're doing so *because of the Protocol*.

So how can it be a guarantor of stability?
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May 19, 2022
BREAKING: The @metpoliceuk investigation into #Partygate, Operation Hillman, has concluded, the police say.

In total, 126 fines were issued.

@LBC
We now actually have some interesting information about the rationale and methods in the police investigation.

The Met say they do not normally conduct retrospective investigations. But exceptions were made for "flagrant breaches", as follows: When subject knew it was an offence When not investigating
Operation Hillman involved 12 full-time officers, and the total cost was approximately £460,000.
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