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- Second day of strike action to go ahead after talks fail again
- Johnson ‘hasn’t lifted a finger’ to solve rail strikes, says Starmer
- Labour frontbenchers who joined strike pickets pressed to apologise
Moderna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announcement, Sajid Javid, the health secretary, said:
We all saw during the pandemic the differences that cutting edge vaccines and treatments can make and we all particularly saw that the mRNA technology has been very transformational. It has literally saved millions of lives over the last couple of years.
And that’s why I’m thrilled to announce this new partnership between the UK government and Moderna, where Moderna will established here in the UK, a global R&D facility with over £1bn for investment in this cutting edge technology, and also a huge manufacturing centre, their largest outside of the US, and so this is a great investment in the UK, and gives huge confidence to our life sciences sector already leading in Europe.
Shapps says claim he wrecked strike negotiations 'a total lie'
Transport secretary Grant Shapps has accused Mick Lynch of “wasting time making false claims in the media” after the union boss accused him of wrecking negotiations.
He said in a statement: “This is a total lie from the RMT and its general secretary. I have had absolutely nothing to do with either the issuing of a letter from Network Rail, the employer, to the RMT - or any request to withdraw it.
“I understand that the letter makes no mention of 2,900 redundancies, but I do know it confirmed Network Rail would be introducing desperately needed reforms for the industry after the union chose strike action instead of further talks.
“The RMT continues to deflect from the fact that the only people responsible for the massive public disruption this week is them.
“I want to urge Mick Lynch and his members to stop wasting time making false claims in the media and instead return to the negotiating table so an agreement can be reached.”
Johnson to hold talks with Prince of Wales over Rwanda policy
Boris Johnson will hold talks with the Prince of Wales in Rwanda after the latter’s reported criticism of the policy of sending asylum seekers to the country on a one-way ticket.
The prime minister will join Charles on Thursday in the east African country’s capital Kigali, where they are attending the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm).
The meeting between the prime minister and Charles will be the first time they have spoken since the service for the Queen’s platinum jubilee.
It was subsequently reported that Charles has described the policy of sending asylum seekers who arrive in the UK after unauthorised journeys as “appalling” in private remarks.
“They are due to meet, obviously they will encounter each other during the summit but they are due to have a bilateral discussion as well,” the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said.
The first flight removing people to Rwanda was due to take off last week but was grounded by successful legal challenges ahead of a full hearing on the scheme’s legality in UK courts.
A three-day high court hearing has been agreed to determine whether the Home Office’s controversial plans to remove some asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful. The hearing will take start on 19 July, a high court judge confirmed today.
Representatives for those involved in the case urged the judge, Mr Justice Swift, to delay the hearing to allow more time for evidence to be gathered and to allocate more than three days for the hearing. He refused.
The Home Office is hoping to get the European Court of Human Rights to change its mind about an interim ruling against a decision which led to the grounding of the inaugural flight to Rwanda last week.
In written submissions to the high court this week about the Rwanda deportation case the home secretary wrote: “The UK has informed the ECtHR that it intends to submit representations imminently.”
However, ECtHR told the Guardian that certain criteria would need to be met before a ruling of the kind made last week could be set aside. These issues are unlikely to be resolved before the full high court hearing next month which will examine the lawfulness of Home Office’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
“An interim measure would usually only be lifted if the court was satisfied that there was no imminent risk of irreparable harm to the applicant. That test would normally be satisfied in an expulsion case if either there was no imminent risk of expulsion, or if the court was satisfied that if expelled, there would no longer be a real risk of irreparable harm,” a spokesperson for ECtHR said.
The prime minister will join Charles on Thursday in the east African country’s capital Kigali, where they are attending the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm).
The meeting between the prime minister and Charles will be the first time they have spoken since the service for the Queen’s platinum jubilee.
It was subsequently reported that Charles has described the policy of sending asylum seekers who arrive in the UK after unauthorised journeys as “appalling” in private remarks.
“They are due to meet, obviously they will encounter each other during the summit but they are due to have a bilateral discussion as well,” the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said.
The first flight removing people to Rwanda was due to take off last week but was grounded by successful legal challenges ahead of a full hearing on the scheme’s legality in UK courts.
Three-day court hearing set for July to decide if Rwanda deportation policy lawful
A three-day high court hearing has been agreed to determine whether the Home Office’s controversial plans to remove some asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful. The hearing will take start on 19 July, a high court judge confirmed today.
Representatives for those involved in the case urged the judge, Mr Justice Swift, to delay the hearing to allow more time for evidence to be gathered and to allocate more than three days for the hearing. He refused.
The Home Office is hoping to get the European Court of Human Rights to change its mind about an interim ruling against a decision which led to the grounding of the inaugural flight to Rwanda last week.
In written submissions to the high court this week about the Rwanda deportation case the home secretary wrote: “The UK has informed the ECtHR that it intends to submit representations imminently.”
However, ECtHR told the Guardian that certain criteria would need to be met before a ruling of the kind made last week could be set aside. These issues are unlikely to be resolved before the full high court hearing next month which will examine the lawfulness of Home Office’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
“An interim measure would usually only be lifted if the court was satisfied that there was no imminent risk of irreparable harm to the applicant. That test would normally be satisfied in an expulsion case if either there was no imminent risk of expulsion, or if the court was satisfied that if expelled, there would no longer be a real risk of irreparable harm,” a spokesperson for ECtHR said.
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