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Feb 28 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Priti Patel may bow to pressure to do more to help Ukrainians. But will the crisis shame the Govt into ditching its bigger plan to criminalise all other refugees?
inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-…
Lords will vote later today to strip Clause 11 from the #BordersBill. Govt defeat likely as Tory peers and crossbenchers join forces.
But when it returns to MPs, will the Ukraine crisis force a rethink?
The Immigration Minister deleted this but here's why it felt like a classic case of 'in tweeto veritas'

inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-…
In the Lords, in answer to an urgent Q about why uk not following EU on removing Ukraine entry restrictions, minister Lord Sharpe of Epsom just said "visas are an important security tool".
In Commons, @pritipatel announces 100,000 Ukrainians will be allowed into the UK under changes to allow immediate family of those already in the country
Patel rejects full visa waiver for Ukrainians saying there are security concerns about extremists entering UK as well as Russians who may try to pose as Ukrainian
Says her approach is "based on the strongest security advice"
Intriguingly, after @HackneyAbbott said it was unacceptable for Home Sec to avoid making a full statement on Ukraine refugees (HomeOff topical Qs afford less chance of being questioned at length), Speaker Hoyle had an extended private chat with @pritipatel as she left rhe chamber

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Mar 1
Extraordinarily moving questions from a Ukrainian journalist at the @BorisJohnson press conference. Amazed BBC didn't cover it but @SkyNews stuck with it.
“You’re coming to Poland, Prime Minister, you’re not coming to Kyiv, Prime Minister, you’re not coming to Lviv. Because you are afraid..."
"...Because Nato is not ready to defend, because Nato is afraid of World War Three. But it’s already started. And it’s Ukrainian children who are there, taking the hit.”
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Mar 1
Although the UK and others will want to keep secret the exact supply routes for new arms, the fear will be that Russian air power will target border crossings and bomb any trucks/trains carrying munitions long before they got near Ukrainian troops who need them
Really interesting from @DominicRaab: the UK *has* considered a no-fly zone for Ukraine.
“We have considered a no-fly zone but for the reasons I’ve given [risk to Western forces/war with Russia]… the international community as a whole decided against it.”
Raab said: “We will not get involved directly in military operations against Russian forces" because UK agreed with US that 1) that would feed ‘Putin’s narrative’ of Western aggression against Russia and 2) because Ukraine was not a Nato ally..
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Feb 28
.@YvetteCooperMP today asked @pritipatel if her visa policy would mean an elderly Ukrainian woman stuck at Gare du Nord could now join her daughter in the UK.
"Yes" replied the Home Secretary.
But she really meant "No".

Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is out

inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-…
Powerful speech right now in the Lords from Lord Kerr as he fillets the Govt's #Bordersbill and its plans for a new two-tier asylum system that criminalises refugees.

"I refute the minister's contention in one word: Ukraine"
Lord Kerr is withering on the Home Office rationale for its plans, says its interpretation of the UN Convention on Refugees is 'an invention'.
"The Convention sets only one test, not *how* the refugee got here, but *why*."
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Feb 28
"The UK and our allies will have to suffer some hardship" as a result of our sanctions on Russia, but that's nothing compared to suffering of the Ukrainian people, @trussliz tells a hushed Commons.
"Putin must lose" she says
(Slight tweak to the PM's 'Putin must fail' phrase)
Truss announces UK will apply full sanctions to Sberbank, Russia largest bank. There will be a "full asset freeze" "within days".
"Putin's war could last months or years" @trussliz tells MPs. But the UK will stand by Ukraine 🇺🇦 as long as it takes to defeat him.
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Feb 26
Worth remembering Ukraine's Maidan revolution was sparked by its people's desire for closer trade links with the EU.

'The Russia-Ukraine crisis has shown Boris Johnson that the EU is not the enemy, Putin is.'

inews.co.uk/opinion/russia…
Trade and security are essential to Ukraine’s sense of being European.
It sees membership of the EU as a means of *securing* its independence and sovereignty, not undermining them.

inews.co.uk/opinion/russia… Image
Many Russians too see themselves as European, and want closer trade links.
inews.co.uk/opinion/russia… Image
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Feb 24
I understand that all 11 Labour MPs who signed the Stop The War statement (which criticised Nato) have been written to by the Shadow Chief Whip and asked to withdraw their signatures.
Sounds like if they refuse to do so, they will all lose the whip.
The signatories are:
Diane Abbott
John McDonnell
Richard Burgon
Ian Lavery
Beth Winter
Zarah Sultana
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Apsana Begum
Mick Whitley
Tahir Ali
Ian Mearns
The Stop The War Coalition statement they signed is here:
stopwar.org.uk/article/list-o… Image
Latest: the 11 MPs are minded to pull their signatures as requested, to avoid giving Starmer any excuse to withdraw the whip.
But some of the PLP are pushing for a vote on the whole issue, so this may not be over yet.
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