Archive: Theresa May

Windrush: It’s time for an independent commission into May's anti-immigrant programme

When it comes to our immigration system, the rules are complex, vague in the wrong places, overly specific in others, and appallingly implemented.

Appointment of Theresa May "a positive day in British public life"

Huw Evans, Director General of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), has congratulated Theresa May on becoming Prime Minister.
NARPO "surprised" by Theresa May's choice of candidate for HMCIC

The National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) has been watching with interest the recent developments in policing and was surprised not only at the Home Secretary’s choice of candidate for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary (HMCIC) but also at the comment that he was head and shoulders above any other candidate.
NOAH comment on Theresa May’s Mansion House speech

NOAH welcomes Theresa May’s confirmation that we should have a close relationship with the European Medicines Agency
Unite: G4S civilian investigators should send shock waves across the country

Unite the union, which represents police staff has demanded that home secretary, Theresa May steps in to halt police privatisation as the disgraced security company G4S advertises for civilian investigators to work for Warwickshire police.

Windrush Kids: No justice & no peace in immigration debate

Caribbean immigrants to the UK in the 50s and 60s are suddenly being asked to prove their right to be here
May should leave with honour, rather than serve the Rees-Moggites

History will judge the prime minister kindly if she falls on her sword rather than become a hostage to her party's militant tendency.

The snowed-in speech: May pedals furiously down a dead end

Another Brexit speech from the prime minister, another inch further down the road to nowhere.
Who's to blame for the mess in N.Ireland? The buck stops with Theresa May

May has made one tactical error after another when it comes to handling Northern Ireland

Damning report shows how empty May's Brexit threats are

Theresa May threatened to change free movement during transition, but she doesn't have the funding, the staff, or the time to do so.
May now hates the abuse she did so much to encourage

The PM is partly responsible for the degraded political debate in the UK

Theresa May starts another fight she will not finish

Once again the PM has prioritised short term headlines over long term strategy
Lancaster House one year on: May has all her delusion and none of her power

The difference between then and now is the difference between rhetoric and action

Everything you need to know about the Brexit endgame in five minutes

Your down-and-dirty guide to the Brexit year ahead, from the fight over transition to the chances of a second referendum.
Week in review: A purge of white middle-aged men? If only

This was no purge. Perhaps it would be better if it was.

The myth of an independent Lords: How peers take the whip

Wholescale change is needed so that appointments are no longer made for partisan reasons
The reshuffle that wasn't: May blows it again

The prime minister starts the new year as badly as she ended the last one.

May's hypocrisy over Windsor homeless comments

The government recently made a very similar argument to that of the Windsor councillor
Year in Review: The hangover from 2016 drags on

A look back at 2017

Green goes – a standstill moment in a standstill government

The ripples from Green's sacking will not extend beyond the bounds of SW1
Brexit: All that's left for May to get through is the unyielding wall of reality

Brexit is not a policy - It's a Tory fantasy and national nightmare

Brexit: A familiar return to chaos and embarrassment for May

Brexit has become a pantomime with all of the pratfalls and none of the jokes
The truth about May's £20m fund for women's refuges

Investigation reveals that nearly a third of projects chosen to receive the funds are yet to see it