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For Women Scotland objects to use of individual risk assessments, saying it is contrary to supreme court rulingFemale prisoners are paying the price for an “Orwellian” Scottish government policy that allows some transgender inmates to be housed in female prisons, Scotland’s highest civil court has heard.The campaign group For Women Scotland is challenging guidance that says trans prisoners should be housed according to individual risk assessment, which the group argues […]

Cabinet Office forwards Mandelson-Epstein emails to Met as PM says former business secretary ‘let his country down’UK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has handed a dossier on Peter Mandelson to the police and will legislate to strip the disgraced former minister of his peerage, after reports that he leaked market-sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein at the height of the financial crisis.Starmer told his cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning he […]

Former minister apparently shared confidential government emails with child sex offender and financierUK politics live – latest updatesPeter Mandelson has resigned from the House of Lords after a series of scandalous emails came to light that linked him to the child sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, including ones that apparently leaked confidential UK government communications.The move was announced by the speaker of the House of Lords. Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead […]

Mandelson will still be entitled to call himself Lord but no longer entitled to take part in House of Lords proceedingsThe Department for Work and Pensions has named 12 disability experts with “lived experience of disability or long-term health conditions” who will sit on the steering group of the review looking at the future of the personal independence payment (Pip), a disability benefit. Stephen Timms, the minister leading the review, […]

Marius Borg Hoiby, son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, faces 38 counts centred on alleged abuse of women.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article