Britain spent half its treasury to free slaves. The loan we took out in 1834 do so (we had to pay the slave owners) we only paid back fully in 2014. We freed 800,000 slaves and even policed the seas to capture slave ships to free the slaves onboard. (1/2)

An Albanian criminal has been allowed to stay in the UK partly because his son will not eat foreign chicken nuggets. The judge allowed the appeal against deportation under the European Convention on Human Rights. Once again, we need to leave the ECHR.

Exclusive in @BloombergUK Saturday read *Attorney General Richard Hermer strengthened government legal advice on the Chagos islands to give a ‘clearer steer’ that the UK faced breaking international law, leading Keir Starmer to accelerate a deal, sources say. *Advice inherited by Labour from the Tories said there was a risk international courts could rule that Britain should hand over sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius. *But as part of his reforms updating the so-called ‘legal risk guidance’ given to ministers by government lawyers, Hermer gave a clearer steer that without a deal the UK would likely lose a future case and have to give up the islands to comply with such a ruling. *Starmer accepted that upgraded advice and concluded the negotiations with Mauritius that started under the Tories. *However, senior Conservative sources say there was a key difference: they say they would never have complied with any such ruling, and claim they had a secret strategy of pausing, delaying and never completing the Mauritius negotiations in order to kick the problem into the long grass. *The Tory approach may have been legally debatable, but it was in the national interest, one said. *Some Labour sources now wish they had taken a similar approach, blaming Hermer for tying Starmer’s hands with black and white advice. There are concerns in No10 and Cabinet about why they are spending so much capital on a deal that could cause a diplomatic row with the US with no political benefit at home. *If Trump vetoes the deal, it means Hermer’s advice is that Starmer directly risks breaching international law. That would make Hermer’s position in cabinet untenable, Labour sources said.

Here’s what the British did for my grandparents, parents and me in Malaysia: Railways, roads, hospitals, schools, churches Rubber trees, tin mining The splendour of colonial architecture Law Jobs English Language. So, yes, pupils must be taught about the greatness of the Empire.

🚨 NEW: A think tank report has found that if 800,000 of the migrants who came to the UK between 2021 and 2024 settled here permanently then it could cost taxpayers nearly £250bn [@Telegraph]