Rhiannon James

2 days ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Rhiannon James |Will Durrant |Richard Wheeler |Harry Taylor

Flagship immigration reforms which propose to equip the Government with the tools to “identify, disrupt and dismantle” criminal gangs, have moved a step closer to becoming law. MPs voted 316 to 95, majority 221 at third reading in support of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill. The legislation aims to introduce new offences and counter-terror-style powers to tackle people smugglers bringing migrants across the English Channel.

6 days ago | independent.co.uk | Rhiannon James

Sir Lindsay Hoyle made accusations that MPs had been told to ‘go home as there would be no statement’. Sir Lindsay Hoyle has berated a minister saying “we don’t do business like this” after the Government suggested a statement on the UK-US trade deal should be delayed. The Speaker of the House of Commons also made accusations that MPs had been told to “go home as there would be no statement”, despite one being scheduled.

6 days ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Will Durrant |Rhiannon James |Claudia Savage

English voters who do not have a devolved national parliament face a “democratic deficit”, a Conservative MP has warned. Andrew Rosindell described himself as a “strong supporter” of the UK Parliament in Westminster but told the Commons that English people suffer with a “rather diminished democratic voice”. Unlike Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, where some decisions are taken by lawmakers in Stormont, Holyrood and Cardiff Bay, England does not have a devolved national assembly.

1 week ago | irishnews.com | David Hughes |Rhiannon James |Christopher McKeon |Nina Lloyd

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1 week ago | independent.co.uk | Rhiannon James

Technology minister Sir Chris Bryant said this could create ‘legal confusion, uncertainty and inconsistency’. MPs have rejected a bid to force public authorities to record sex data purely based on biological sex, amid concerns it would lead to the “mass outing of trans people”. The Conservatives had put forward proposals to amend the Data Bill to require sex data to be collected only on the basis of “sex at birth”, “natal sex” or “biological sex”.