If this report accurate, illegal immigration bill would make asylum claims *automatically* void if the person arrived by boat thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-…. At the moment, such claims *may* be void (and usually processed after 6 months if nowhere to send the person) Current policy is not to keep people in "limbo" for ages by declaring their asylum claim inadmissible but not having another country to remove them to. gov.uk/government/pub…

European Court of Human Rights confirms it has granted an injunction preventing the removal to Rwanda, for three weeks, of an Iraqi man who arrived in the UK by boat last month and claimed asylum. The same man had applied unsucessfully to the Supreme Court earlier today. Full press release: hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion…

Summary of UK government legal argument on NI protocol legislation (Attorney General’s office stresses that it is not the AG’s actual legal advice): gov.uk/government/pub… “The strain that the arrangements under the Protocol are placing on institutions in Northern Ireland, and more generally on socio-political conditions, has reached the point where the Government has no other way of safeguarding the essential interests at stake...”

The UK government is downgrading "humanitarian protection", which is like refugee status but for people fleeing war zones instead of state persecution. From next month, people granted humanitarian protection only get to stay in the UK temporarily for 2.5 years at a time, rather than for 5 years on a pathway to permanent residence as they do at the moment.

Main elements of the Bill of Rights to replace the Human Rights Act 1998, promised in the Queen's Speech: (1/5) "Establishing the primacy of UK case law, clarifying there is no requirement to follow the Strasbourg case law and that UK Courts cannot interpret rights in a more expansive manner than the Strasbourg Court."