Tag: dominic raab

Amnesty International UK said Raab's plans represented "the complete opposite of justice".

"I think the EU is concerned that Britain might do rather well once we leave the EU," he said.

The Justice Secretary said prisoners and offenders should be given "skin in the game".

Labour's deputy leader took Raab to task on Twitter, deriding him as "so out of touch it hurts".

From the newsletter: The endless merry-go-round of justice secretaries blocks any and all progress.

Mr Raab had played up his image as a Brexit hard man during the leadership race in an attempt to win support from the Tory right.

Labour’s Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham) earlier warned that the Afghan citizens’ resettlement scheme “is going to end up as a lottery of life and death”.

“There’s been a lot of talk about a failure of intelligence” but that he said back in July that “there are a number of scenarios that could play out and one of them certainly would be a collapse and state fracture”.

The ex-Labour minister was in Crete at the same time... and said the sea was certainly not closed.