Downing Street Parties

New revelations about gaps in the Met Partygate investigation.

— For the law to have any meaning, it must apply equally to us all. The Metropolitan Police must explain their failure to provide any explanation of how they cleared the Prime Minister over the Partygate investigation.

Ukrainian Refugees

Thousands of Ukrainian children are joining UK schools, but some face issues obtaining school places.

— Only 9,900 Ukrainian children have been offered school places in England as their families left their homes and resettled in the UK. If a child is denied a place at a school, families need to know they can appeal the decision.

Justice

New Met Police legal action will get to the truth about the PM’s Partygate.

— The public have a right to know what really went on inside the Partygate investigation.

COMMENT

Government could be forced to come clean over VIP Test and Trace contracts.

— It looks likely the Government will be forced to come clean over companies handed VIP Test and Trace contracts.

Education

The Schools Bill: An attack on home-schooling that hurts children the most.

— Many are alarmed by the Government’s new Schools Bill which seems designed to force some children into mainstream education against their best interests.

Justice

Help stop the great British public space sell-off.

— Treasured public spaces across the UK are being sold off and lost to private interests at an alarming rate.

Racism

Rooting out racism in schools.

— Schools should be places in which every child feels safe and respected. But for too many children from Black and minoritised communities, that is simply not the case.

UK Politics

How can Parliament discipline the PM?

— The more we understand the rules, the better we all can be at making sure MPs stick to them.

COVID-19 & Government Response

Explosive emails revealed at the High Court describe the UK Government’s COVID testing programme.

— The Government’s shambolic COVID testing programme was described as ‘unlegit’ and ‘no way to do business’ in explosive emails revealed at the High Court yesterday.

Justice

Private emails: It’s not the result we hoped for.

— We didn’t get the result we were looking for in our challenge to the UK Government over the use of private email accounts, but we are not giving up.

COMMENT

The Prime Minister has brought our democracy into disrepute – it’s time to restore some pride.

— Boris Johnson is the first British Prime Minister to have committed a criminal offence while in office. The country deserves a Prime Minister we can look up to, not look down at.

Justice

None of the Prime Minister’s phone messages prior to April 2021 can be searched.

— The Government has admitted that all of Boris Johnson’s pandemic phone messages are unavailable. What is the Prime Minister trying to hide from the public?

Justice

It’s time for an end to cronyism.

— An update on a High Court’s treatment of costs that is exceptionally harsh.

Justice

High Court rules Dido Harding and Mike Coupe appointments were unlawful.

— According to the High Court, the Prime Minister and the former Health Secretary Matt Hancock broke the law by pushing their associates and donors into key jobs during the pandemic.

COVID-19 & Schools

Legal advice: Government can’t ban the use of facemasks in schools.

— The Education Secretary doesn’t have the power to go over the heads of headteachers and ban the wearing of facemasks in school.