A key challenge for the new CDL/Chief Sec will be to get his old Department, HMT, aligned so that the allocation of money fits with No 10 & Cabinet priorities.

@jamesrball.com and @writesbright.bsky.social have confirmed they're also banned from this year's Reform UK national conference.

They were informed today.

So Farage explicitly told Congress that he doesn't ban journalists from Reform events on the exact day that he banned journalists from events.

Elon Musk is a radicalised extremist openly championing the most racist faction who would deport the Foreign Secretary, the Leader of the Opposition, the Justice Secretary and the last Prime Minister

The govt silence about such a level of extremism is craven: infinite tolerance of racial hatred

Good company to be in!

If you listen to or read Bean J's decision (to which the 2 other appeal judges were party), it's clear that they did consider the context very carefully and in detail. We are also promised a 120 page written judgement on Monday. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the judgement is a separate issue

The Appsal Court overturned the injunction. But it didn't consider the substance of the planning issue, which is due to be heard fully in court in October.

That comment should have been called out by the Justice Secretary at the time. When I became Justice Secretary, I made my support for judicial independence very clear, both inside & outside Parliament

When I was Justice Secretary I had no say (quite rightly) in allocation of trials to judges. It's responsibility of the senior judiciary, & ultimately the LCJ, though in practice logistics come into it - which judges with appropriate experience are available & how long a case is expected to last

Both the initial judge who found for Epping Council & the Apeal judges who granted the appeal have been alleged to have shown political bias.