Today three judges ruled in favour of the Home Office and overturned the temporary injunction blocking asylum seekers from being housed in an Epping hotel. One of the judges, Lord Justice David Bean, has a history of Labour links…
Bean was a former Treasurer for the Society of Labour Lawyers. The group openly calls itself an “affiliated socialist society” providing legal and policy advice to the Labour Party. And to Labour MPs…
The judge who initially granted the temporary injunction, Mr Justice Eyre, stood as a Tory candidate in four elections between 1987 and 2004. Lord Justice Bean was also a founding member of left-leaning law firm Matrix Chambers, whose former members include Attorney General Lord Hermer and Mauritius’ chief legal adviser on the Chagos surrender deal Philippe Sands KC. Both close friends of Keir Starmer…
Bookmark this from Andy Burnham:
2029: “that’s when the next election will be.”
May 2027: “Absolutely not.”
“No election any time soon.”
“All of this speculation on an early election, I can knock that dead.”