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Day: November 26, 2018

May to plead with Labour MPs to back her deal at private meeting
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May to plead with Labour MPs to back her deal at private meeting

    Theresa May has invited all Labour MPs to a private Brexit briefing as she begs them to back her deal. The Prime Minister will ramp up her two-week campaign to save her deal and her career with the behind-closed-doors session at 8pm. A note sent to Labour MPs has said it will be held by her Cabinet deputy, David Lidington, and chief of staff Gavin Barwell. A Labour source said many MPs were expected to turn up. Remain-backing MP Wes Streeting tweeted: Hope this is as good as the last briefing when Boris Johnson resigned. You can’t buy that kind of entertainment. Shadow minister Andrew Gwynne joked: Do we get knighthoods for attending? Tory MP John Hayes was handed a knighthood last week but is vowing to vote down the deal anyway. Jeremy Corbyn is not expected to...
Deported rogue trader: The Home Office destroys lives
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Deported rogue trader: The Home Office destroys lives

    He had spent the first four hours of his flight from London Heathrow weeping about everything he had lost in the UK and the manner of his final parting from the country he had spent most of his life in. After seven years of fighting the Home Office’s plans to deport him, the end of the road was swift and brutal. He was not even allowed to say goodbye to his loved ones. Adoboli was arrested and detained two weeks ago, was deported two days later with no written notice from the Home Office about which flight he was going to board, and arrived back in Ghana, where he had not lived since the age of four, the following day. They did a bait and switch on the tarmac at Heathrow, he says. They indicated I would be boarding one plane then at the very last moment they forced...