Rochdale by-election – reside: Candidate gets ‘death threat’ as Pro-Palestine protesters told to stop marches

The home secretary has said pro-Palestine protesters have “made their point” and questioned whether holding regular marches “adds value” to their calls for an immediate ceasefire.

James Cleverly, in an interview with The Times, questioned what future demonstrations in support of ending the violence in Gaza hoped to achieve given the Conservative UK government was in “disagreement” with their position.

The Post Office expressing a view on the overturning the fraud convictions of department managers is “quite inappropriate”, a number one campaigner has stated.

Conservative peer Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom additionally stated it was “quite wrong” for the corporate to have a job within the compensation course of for wronged subpostmasters.

The Tory former MP, who had lengthy championed the problem and is a member of the Horizon compensation advisory board, made his feedback after the Post Office told the Government it will be sure to oppose appeals in additional than half the circumstances it had prosecuted.

A legislation aimed toward exonerating subpostmasters caught up within the Horizon IT scandal is anticipated to be introduced ahead “as soon as possible next month”, in accordance to ministers, with the hope that every one convictions will likely be “overturned by July”.

Giving proof to MPs on Tuesday, Post Office chief govt officer Nick Read stated: “We are making no value judgments here.

“We want people to get through this process and if mass exoneration is the right thing, then let’s make sure we get the right legislation in place to deliver mass exoneration.”

But talking in Parliament, Lord Arbuthnot stated: “The Post Office itself is under investigation by the police.

“Is it not quite inappropriate for the Post Office to express any view at all as to the correctness of overturning convictions and also quite wrong for the Post Office to have any position or play any part in the compensation process itself?”

After his dialog on LBC with James O’Brien, Cllr Bret Rosehill stated: “I called LBC in my personal capacity to express my personal opinions on a current topic.

“My concern with Lee’s comments are that we are moving the dial away from discussing the threat to the Jewish population and entwining the conversation with Islamophobia.”

“Antisemitism is a separate issue which, as a percentage hate crimes per capita by religion, is in a league of its own at the moment.”

He added: “During the conversation, James asked which Labour MPs have expressed antisemitism in the same way as Lee Andersen had with islamophobia. I highlighted Jeremy Corbyn and Dawn Butler with the latter refusing to sign the Board of Deputies’ ten pledges to tackle antisemitism. In retrospect, having felt as though I was backed in a corner by James O’Brien, I was wrong in my views of Dawn Butler and I would like to sincerely apologise to her.

The world is getting tougher and tougher and I hoped I could have a sensible discussion on LBC however it sadly didn’t turn out that way.

Sacked border watchdog David Neal told MPs he was fired “for doing my job” and hit out on the “shocking” means the Home Office terminated his function.

He was sacked as the impartial chief inspector of borders and immigration earlier this month after dropping the boldness of Home Secretary James Cleverly amid claims he breached the phrases of his appointment.

The former inspector had turn out to be embroiled in a row with the Home Office about considerations he was elevating over safety checks at airports.

Mr Neal told the Commons Home Affairs Committee: “I’ve been sacked for doing my job.

“I think I’ve been sacked for doing what the law asks of me and I’ve breached, I’ve fallen down over a clause in my employment contract, which I think is a crying shame.”

His tenure as the impartial borders watchdog was due to finish on March 21 and he claimed No 10 had blocked his reappointment earlier than he was in the end fired.

The Ashfield MP has been suspended from the Conservative celebration following his feedback on GB News

Mr Anderson, who’s paid £100,000 a yr to be host on the TV channel, stated on Friday: “I don’t actually believe that the Islamists have got control of our country, but what I do believe is they’ve got control of Khan and they’ve got control of London, and they’ve got control of Starmer as well.”

Once a Labour protected-seat, Rochdale is going through a chaotic byelection this week the place the celebration isn’t represented in any respect, writes Zoe Grunewald:

Former Post Office chairman Henry Staunton has stated that he’s a sufferer of a “smear campaign” after a fallout with Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch.

Henry Staunton made the allegation at a listening to to focus on compensation funds to sub-postmasters on the centre of the Horizon scandal.

Alan Bates, the inspiration behind the ITV drama, told MPs the federal government wanted to “get on and pay people”.

“It’s very disappointing,” he stated. “This has been going on for years, as you well know, and I can’t see any end to it.”

Mr Staunton, who was sacked as Post Office chair stated that compensation course of had slowed proper down till Mr Bates vs The Post Office was aired in January.

“We all know that things were moving far too slowly … and the reason why people have latched onto what I said in the Sunday Times was that finally someone was being honest about how deep seated the problems were and why nothing was being done,” he told MPs on the Business and Trade Committee.

“I still think that more could be done, at least to make compensation more generous, and the process of getting justice less bureaucratic.

“But I will at least have achieved something if the sunlight of disinfectant, which the Secretary of State so approves of, means that Government now lives up to its promises.

“What the public wants to know is why was everything so slow? … And why does everything remain so slow? I’ve spoken up on matters of genuine public concern, have been fired, and am now subject to a smear campaign.”

Rishi Sunak has rejected a suggestion for MPs to converse and vote from their constituencies due to considerations about safety at Westminster.

Veteran Labour MP Harriet Harman had recommended a return to Covid-era distant working might be wanted to make sure the safety of politicians within the face of threats and intimidation.

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle broke with precedent over the number of a Labour modification to an SNP movement as a result of he had considerations concerning the intimidation suffered by some parliamentarians – however the backlash to his actions has left his personal place in jeopardy.

“One of the things that I think could come out of a Speaker’s Conference is an agreement that actually we could go back to hybrid again, which is that sometimes MPs could speak in the Chamber, sometimes they could speak from their constituency,” Harman told LBC Radio.

But a No 10 spokeswoman stated the Prime Minister would resist any change that might “stifle” the function of Parliament.

The spokeswoman stated: “He believes that Parliament should remain the place where MPs express their views and have debate.

“That’s fundamental to our democracy and he doesn’t want to see that change.”

Giving proof to parliament’s enterprise and commerce choose committee, Mr Bates stated:

“My personal view about Post Office is it’s a dead duck and it has been for years, and it’s going to be a moneypit for the taxpayer in the years to come.

He added: “You should sell it to someone like Amazon for £1, get really good contracts for all the serving sub-postmasters and within a few years you’ll have one of the best networks around Britain.”