Priti Patel
Barrister criticises borders bill saying it will undermine progress against modern slavery
Without a doubt it is going to make things worse, says Caroline Haughey QC.
Priti Patel ridiculed after handing taxpayer-funded job to former Taxpayers’ Alliance boss
The TaxPayers’ alliance has previously criticised spending vast amounts of public cash on ‘spin doctors’.
Boris Johnson’s former spin doctor hits out at Tory plans to silence journalists
The proposals are disproportionate, oppressive, and deeply harmful to democracy and the public's right to know, says James Slack.
Government urged to cancel ‘discriminatory’ mass deportation flight to Jamaica that will ‘tear people away from their families’
Human rights group Liberty has described the deportation flights as 'cruel'.
100,000 demand government scraps new attempt to ‘gag’ journalists
Is this the next phase in the roll-back of democratic freedoms?
Official Secrets Act: Tory proposals are part of a long history of suppressing journalism to hide government misdeeds
The government wants to toughen the law again for the digital age. But the real target is journalists and their sources.