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Expenses appeal: Parliament ‘terrorised’ by media

By politics.co.uk staff Lawyers defending the three former Labour MPs and one peer facing a criminal trial over their expenses claims suggested parliament had been terrorised by the media yesterday. Edward Fitzgerald QC, representing former Scunthorpe MP Elliot Morley, suggested “the terrorisation of parliament by a massive press campaign” had occurred in the last year,… Read more »

Govt wins right to deny troops’ human rights

By Ian Dunt The government has won a supreme court appeal confirming that troops are not protected by the Human Rights Act. The government had originally lost the case, and then the appeal, but a final supreme court decision was allowed, which went in the government’s favour this morning. The President of the Supreme Court,… Read more »