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…
Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”