![]() ![]() Lord Clarke, the former chancellor, has warned Jeremy Hunt against trying to “buy votes” with tax cuts at the Budget on Wednesday. Ipsos’s previous lowest score for the Conservatives was 22 per cent, recorded by Sir John Major in December 1994 and May 1995, only a few years before Sir Tony Blair’s landslide win in 1997. The Tories’ 20 per cent figure is even lower than the 23 per cent recorded in December 2022, shortly after Mr Sunak replaced Liz Truss as Prime Minister. Gideon Skinner, head of political research at Ipsos, told the Evening Standard that the “historical comparisons continue to look ominous for Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives”. Ipsos said it was the lowest level of support recorded for the Conservatives in one of its polls since the company started its regular poll tracker back in 1978. Support for the Tories had dropped by seven points when compared to the company’s previous poll at the end of January while Labour were down by two points, giving the latter an overall lead of 27 points. The poll, conducted between Feb 21-28 on behalf of the Evening Standard, put the Tories on 20 per cent of the vote and Labour on 47 per cent. The Conservative Party has fallen to its lowest level of poll support in almost 50 years, according to a new Ipsos survey. So the fact we’ve done the wrong thing in the past doesn’t automatically make it right today.” One of the things we were told is it is a basic rule of ethics and morality that two wrongs don’t make a right. He added: “One of the things I was brought up on believing and even believe it or not when I was trained as a clergyman. But the Government is challenging the right of international law to constrain our actions, and the point of international law is to stop governments going ahead with things that are wrong.” The Government is not doing something on the scale of what we saw at that stage. “Now we’re not in any situation remotely like that, let’s be clear. Winston Churchill’s advocacy of the European Court of Human Rights after the Second World War grew up in order to give a fallback where domestic law was not doing the right thing by linking it to international law and ensuring there was a stop that says ‘well you can do this perfectly legitimate thing domestically, but that doesn’t mean it’s always right, and always the right thing to do’. “That continued and most historians agree that the first two elections gave the Nazi Party a legtimate majority. The Most Rev Justin Welby said: “The rise in international human rights law grew out of the horrors of the 1940s, where a government that in 1933 in Germany had been legally and properly elected passed horrific laws that did terrible things, starting from within a few weeks of the election of Adolf Hitler. The Archbishop of Canterbury invoked Nazi Germany and “the horrors of the 1940s” as he mounted a defence of international human rights law as the Lords debated the Rwanda plan. You can follow the latest updates below and join the conversation in the comments section here. It came as Lord Clarke, a former Tory chancellor, said the Supreme Court was “likely” to “strike down” Rishi Sunak’s flagship deportation policy again. The vote is likely to set into motion ‘ping pong’ between the Lords and the Commons when the Bill eventually returns for votes by MPs, although it is unlikely the Lords will be able to scupper the plan altogether as this back and forth can only happen three times before the Government can invoke the Parliament Act and override the Upper House. Then they voted with a majority of 91 to allow Parliament’s designation of Rwanda as a safe country to be “rebutted by credible evidence presented to decision-makers, including courts and tribunals”. ![]() Peers proceeded to back Amendment 4, which requires there to be proof that Rwanda is safe before any deportation flights take off. The Government has been defeated multiple times in the House of Lords over the Rwanda Bill as peers voted add tougher safeguards to the scheme.Īmendment 2, which was supported by 274 peers to 172 on Monday, states: “This amendment seeks to ensure that the eventual Act is fully compliant with the rule of law while maintaining full compliance with international and domestic law.” ![]()
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