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...Some 274 members of the UK’s upper house voted for the amendment, tabled by the Labour Lord Vernon Coaker, with 102 voting against it....
...Home Office minister Lord Sharpe insisted during the debate that there was nothing in the bill that conflicted with the UK’s legal obligations....
...The 110-vote majority in favour of the amendment marked Sunak’s biggest defeat in the Lords since he became prime minister....
...The taxpayer-funded Teesside regeneration body chaired by Lord Ben Houchen faces a potential legal bill of more than £4mn after losing an action in London’s High Court against Britain’s fifth biggest port...
...Rwanda asylum bill is “fundamentally incompatible” with the UK’s human rights obligations, a cross-party parliamentary committee has warned, as the legislation is set to undergo scrutiny in the House of Lords...
...Lord David Anderson KC, former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation in the UK, told the BBC that the definition was “extremely broad” and risked catching both sides of the trans rights debate....
...The NAO findings came as UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda bill returned for the second time on Wednesday to the House of Lords....
...Lord David Cameron, the UK’s foreign minister, last week urged the Hong Kong government to reconsider the draft....
...Top stories today Labour U-turn over Lords | Labour is delaying plans to abolish the House of Lords as Britain’s main opposition party hones its policy platform ahead of the general election expected this...
...The Teesworks regeneration body chaired by Lord Ben Houchen has lost a High Court bid to block the region’s Brookfield-owned port, the UK’s fifth largest, from any access rights to its land....
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...persistent “culture of excessive confidentiality” and “lack of transparency” at the project and recorded a catalogue of governance failures at two public bodies chaired by the Tees Valley’s Conservative mayor, Lord...
...His account of the history of the site takes in William the Conqueror, Henry VIII and William Pitt the Younger — who moved the docks there around 1800....
...The redevelopment of the former Redcar steelworks is a flagship project of Conservative mayor Lord Ben Houchen and has come under scrutiny after ownership of much of the project was transferred to two local...
...Veteran British diplomat Lord John Kerr, who is on the international agreements committee in the Lords, predicted the bill would struggle to get through the upper chamber in its current form....
...Lord Robert Reed, president of the Supreme Court, said asylum seekers sent to Rwanda would be at real risk of being repatriated to their countries of origin without proper consideration of their claims....
...Which brand of beer was co-founded by Karan Bilimoria — later the first Zoroastrian Parsi to sit in the House of Lords? Which TV character was variously a lord, a butler and a soldier?...
...The bill is also expected to face opposition in the House of Lords....
...It was not in the 2019 manifesto, so the House of Lords can block it....
...Trevor Eliot Bowes is suitably grave as the philosopher tutor Seneca, and Amy J Payne walks away with her scene-stealing opportunity as nurse Arnalta....
...conduct this ground operation, I don’t think their objective of eliminating Hamas can be achieved, I think the next generation of Hamas fighters [are] already being radicalised on the streets of Gaza,” Lord...
...William Hill owner 888 has issued a profit warning, blaming the impact of compliance and regulatory changes and “customer friendly” sports results cutting into margins....
...However, the Labour candidate remains by far the bookmakers’ favourite to win in May, with William Hill offering bets on his victory at 1:33 odds-on....
...In recent years, the area’s Conservative mayor, Lord Ben Houchen, has successfully lobbied the government for green investment, winning funding to regenerate post-industrial sites into a new energy cluster...
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