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Blair’s fury with Chirac over Mugabe summit invite

Newly released files show Tony Blair accused the French president of trying to undermine the UK by inviting the Zimbabwean leader to an EU summit.

The Independent UK

Friday briefing: The court case trying to stop Palestine Action being designated a terrorist group

In today’s newsletter: As legal proceedings begin at the high court, there are urgent questions about the boundaries between civil disobedience and national security

The Guardian - UK

Politicians, lawyers and doctors express concern over use of expert witnesses in English courts

Questions raised about potential miscarriages of justice after use of such experts criticised in Lucy Letby and Post Office Horizon cases

The Guardian - UK

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OPINION - Jack Straw is trying to smuggle a dangerous idea back into Britain's justice system

The British public are about to be presented with a series of “big ideas” to fix the criminal justice system which is currently utterly broken.

Evening Standard

Former justice secretary Jack Straw says right to choose jury trial lets defendants ‘game’ courts

The Labour grandee called for the government to scrap the right to a jury trial for ‘either way’ mid-level offences amid soaring court backlogs

The Independent UK

Jack Straw says UK government should axe defendant's right to elect jury trial

Jack Straw tried to abolish the defendant’s right to elect jury trial when he was Home Secretary

Evening Standard

Japanese filmmaker whose arrest caused international outcry backs calls for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release

Toru Kubota backed calls from three former foreign secretaries William Hague, Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from Myanmar’s brutal dictatorship

The Independent UK

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The Guardian view on the Blair-era archives: fateful decisions come in many guises

Editorial: Document releases from 2004 show that the Labour cabinet was deeply divided and badly informed on how to handle migration from Europe

The Guardian - UK

Tony Blair was warned of Eastern European immigration surge following EU expansion

Papers from the National Archives show Tony Blair was warned of an immigration surge from Eastern Europe following the 2004 EU expansion

Evening Standard

Senior Labour figures urged Tony Blair to delay arrival of EU citizens in UK

Cabinet was split over east European countries joining in 2004, with some ‘extremely concerned’ by its implications

The Guardian - UK

Labour government discussed Tanzania asylum camp plan in 2004, files show

Newly released files show proposals to divert £2m – earmarked to prevent conflict in Africa – to fund scheme

The Guardian - UK

Blair opened UK borders to east European migrants despite misgivings

Newly released official files lift lid on how ministers expressed concerns over unrestricted access for workers from new EU countries

The Independent UK

Free Aung San Suu Kyi, demand three former UK foreign secretaries

The pro-democracy Nobel Peace Prize winner turned global pariah was toppled by the military leaders of Myanmar in 2021 and sentenced to 27 years in prison

The Independent UK

Worboys lawyer joins team working for alleged Fayed victims

Phillippa Kaufmann KC, who helped black cab rapist’s victims sue the Metropolitan police, is helping examine whether the force should have done more to bring Harrods boss to justice

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The Independent UK

Harrods boss Mohamed al-Fayed was a bully says Jack Straw who rejected his application for citizenship

Tycoon accused of combining ‘most horrific parts of Jimmy Savile, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein’

The Independent UK

Labour rejects Jack Straw’s two-state solution for Cyprus as island marks 50 years of division

New British government under pressure to broker deal to end half-century-long crisis

The Guardian - UK

From Feathers McGraw to Mr Burns: kids’ TV’s all-time evillest villains

Who is the most nefarious baddy? Will it be Grotbags? Skeletor? The Jack Straw lookalike in The Demon Headmaster?

The Guardian - UK

Human Rights Act will be safe with a Labour government

Letters: James Toon, who helped develop the act in the 1990s, responds to an article by Shami Chakrabarti on the pressing need for equal treatment

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The Guardian - UK

Hillsborough disaster timeline: decades seeking justice and change

The families of those killed at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final had a long fight for the truth

The Guardian - UK

Hello, Michael Gove? I’d like to report a gang of extremists who are undermining British values

Destroying national morale, attacking democracy, inciting hatred … By its own definition, this government is so extreme it should be reported to itself, says George Monbiot

The Independent UK

Sack Suella Braverman now or look weak, George Osborne tells Rishi Sunak over police bias row

Prime minister faces calls to sack home secretary for accusing Met of ‘playing favourites’ over pro-Palestine protests

The Independent UK

Criminals may be freed early to ease overcrowding as prison crisis laid bare

Dire warning from the chief of UK prison governors who tells The Independent the ‘nuclear button could be pressed very soon’

The Independent UK

Britain’s broken justice system revealed as prisoners trapped in jail for five years before trial

Exclusive: Number of accused held on remand hits record high with 15,000 languishing in overcrowded prisons

The Independent UK

‘Some people never forgive Al Fayed for buying their favourite store, Harrods’

The Egyptian-born businessman who took control of the luxury Knightsbridge department store in 1985, has died aged 94.

The Independent UK

Mohamed Al Fayed called an ‘extraordinary tour de force’

The former Harrods and Fulham FC owner has died at the age of 94, his family announced.

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