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THE Supreme Court ruled against Tory immigration policy yesterday less than a day after Home Secretary Theresa May presented MPs with a first reading of her Immigration Bill.
Judges unanimously ruled that the Australian-inspired points-based system implemented in 2008 did not have a “transparent and objective application process.”
The decision followed an appeal by accountancy student Mandish Mandalia, who was told to leave the country after providing bank statements for 22 rather than the required 28 days.
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
