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Party leaders grilled by public in election Question Time – experts dissect the key issues

In one of the last in a string of special election broadcasts, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labour leader Keir Starmer, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey and Scotland’s first minister, the SNP leader John Swinney, have faced questions from a live audience on BBC Question Time.

The Conversation

Met police ‘using human rights laws to block trooping the colour protest’

Anti-monarchy group to challenge ’Kafkaesque’ move by force over Saturday’s event to mark king’s birthday

The Guardian - UK

Tax cuts, help to buy and stamp duty: Key takeaways from the Conservatives’ general election manifesto

Rishi Sunak claimed his party are the only ones ‘with the big ideas to make our country a better place to live”.

The Independent UK

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Sunak urges voters not to give Starmer ‘blank cheque’ as he launches Tory manifesto

Prime minister promises series of tax cuts but his party’s election policies contain little in the way of surprises

The Guardian - UK

Justice secretary’s fight to protect the European Convention on Human Rights in Sunak’s Tory manifesto

Exclusive: Recording reveals justice secretary Alex Chalk’s bid to stop the Tories ditching the European Convention on Human Rights

The Independent UK

Rightwing Tories plan ‘rebel manifesto’ if Sunak’s policy launch falls flat

Party figures including Braverman and Jenrick waiting to see how public responds to pledges, insiders say

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt warns against Tory lurch to right: ‘Elections are won from the centre ground’

Exclusive: Chancellor says Conservative party is ‘broad church’ and criticises Nigel Farage’s claims over immigration

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Reform’s legal challenge to Labour tax raid on private schools can’t work because of Brexit, says expert

Reform UK leader Richard Tice wants to challenge Labour’s plans to end private school tax exemptions in the courts, but his support for Brexit may have prevented him from going ahead

The Independent UK

Top Rights Court Rejects Former Georgia President's Case

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday rejected appeals of criminal convictions by Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili, finding the trials in his home country had been fair.

International Business Times

Caster Semenya continues court fight to race without lowering testosterone levels

Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya arrived at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg on Wednesday for a hearing to decide whether she will have to lower her testosterone levels in order to compete in races.

Radio France Internationale

Human Rights: The Case for the Defence by Shami Chakrabarti review – freedoms fighter treads a fine line

The Labour peer and former Liberty director makes a clear, impassioned case for human rights law, but steers surprisingly clear of thorny political arguments

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The Conservatives are reaching terminal velocity in their flight from sanity

The real Conservative plot is a subversive struggle against reality. In last Thursday’s elections, the Tories lost 397 seats and Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens gained a total of 394; in Blackpool South, the by-election swing from the Conservatives to Labour was more than 20 per cent for…

Evening Standard

Italy can reclaim 2,000-year-old Greek statue from Getty Museum, court rules

European court of human rights rejects appeal by US trust over lifesize Victorious Youth statue discovered in 1964

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak has staked his premiership on Rwanda – but the electorate will punish him for it

As David Cameron learned to his cost over Brexit, voters don’t judge politicians on policy, they judge on results, says Henry Hill of ConservativeHome

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Al Jazeera

UK passes bill to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda: What’s next?

Government has already chartered planes for deportations to start as early as July, but legal headaches far from over.

International Business Times

Council Of Europe Calls On UK To Scrap Rwanda Migrant Plan

Britain's parliament on Monday passed a bill under which asylum seekers would be deported to Rwanda to await a decision on their applications, in a bid by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to stop people making the dangerous sea crossing to the UK across the Channel.

The Guardian - UK

Senior Tories fear Johnson and Truss will sabotage Sunak’s election campaign

Concerns that vicious circle of party ill-discipline is undermining the PM’s ability to restore order

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European Court Of Human Rights Establishes Climate Change As Human Right

ECHR recognizes protection from climate change as a human right in a case against Switzerland, setting a precedent for future climate-related litigation.

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Evening Standard

Cabinet splits emerge over quitting European Convention on Human Rights

The rebels believe they have a majority in cabinet to support their view.

The Guardian - UK

When Rishi Sunak speaks, the nation shrugs. There’s no coming back from that

Flirting with leaving the European court of human rights has failed to move the dial for the PM, and has highlighted his deficiencies, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Al Jazeera

Top European court hands Swiss women victory in landmark climate ruling

Verdict will have ripple effect in Europe and beyond, likely setting precedent for how courts deal with climate cases.

International Business Times

Courtrooms: A Growing Arena In The Climate Fight

The battle against climate change is increasingly being fought in the courtroom, as national governments, specific laws and individual companies are targeted over their role in the crisis -- sometimes successfully.

The Guardian - UK

Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case

Court finds in favour of group of older Swiss women who claimed weak policies put them at greater risk of death from heatwaves

International Business Times

Top Europe Court To Issue Landmark Climate Verdicts

Europe's top rights court is Tuesday to decide in three separate cases if states are doing enough in the face of global warming in rulings that could force them to do more.

The Guardian - UK

Alan Duncan facing Tory disciplinary inquiry over comments accusing senior party figures of being too ‘pro-Israel’ – as it happened

Former Foreign Office minister had suggested some in government were prepared to overlook human rights violations

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