Macron tells parliament immigration is a challenge that France and UK ‘must fix together'
Addressing parliament on Tuesday, 8 July 2025, he called for France and the UK to focus on fixing immigration.
Macron highlighted a shared responsibility to address irregular migration with humanity, solidarity, and firmness.
He added that an upcoming summit aims for enhanced cooperation and tangible results to resolve the issue.
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The Independent
26 minutes ago
- The Independent
How long can overstretched Met Police cope if Palestine Action protests continue?
In 2024, a total of 248 people were arrested in Britain for terrorist-related activity. Within a matter of hours on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police arrested more than double that as 522 protesters were handcuffed under terror laws for holding placards declaring: 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.' Half of those arrested – who face up to 14 years in prison if they are convicted under the Terrorism Act for supporting a proscribed organisation – were over 60 years old, including 15 octogenarians. Many were applauded by onlookers as they were hauled away by officers. The scale of the challenge forced the Met to use a 'street bail' system to prevent police stations from being overwhelmed by what was described by organisers as a 'momentous act of collective defiance' in Parliament Square. The force used two processing points in Westminster to deal with 320 protesters, who were asked to confirm their details before being released and ordered to appear at a police station at a future date. A total of 212 were transported to police custody, likely because they refused to confirm their identity or were already on police bail. The Met said they were aware of online photos and footage suggesting some people returned to Parliament Square after being released on bail, but conceded it would be 'entirely unrealistic' to recognise these individuals. Over the coming weeks, officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command will work to put together case files and secure charges against those arrested. In some instances, charges will also require approval by the Attorney General Lord Hermer. But the threat of arrest and prison appears to be doing little to deter supporters who have vowed to continue to defy home secretary Yvette Cooper's controversial decision to ban the direct-action group with monthly protests, organised by Defend Our Juries, ahead of a High Court legal challenge November. The Met says they proved they can respond to 'significant protest' requiring many arrests, adding: 'We will do so again if we are required to.' However, the toll of hundreds of terror arrests on a force already grappling with a £260million funding shortfall, a staff recruitment crisis and regular large-scale rallies linked to the Israel-Gaza conflict, should not be underestimated. Paula Dodds, chairman of the Met Police Federation, warned 'tiredness is setting in' for officers. 'Officers are overstretched, rest days are being cancelled,' she told The Independent. 'Leave may be cancelled in the coming weeks as we try to ensure that we have resources to police protests as well as business as usual to keep London safe. 'We will need to call on more mutual aid officers to assist if these protesters continue to come out in numbers. It has just been relentless, and I think we are going to see that for a while yet.' She warned the workload of processing arrests, investigating offences and building files to be passed to the CPS increases demand across all departments at a time when the force is already under strain. In the coming weeks alone, officers face the threat of more anti-migrant protests at hotels housing asylum seekers, the restart of the football season and managing Notting Hill Carnival. She said 'only time will tell' if the resulting pressures result in increased levels of sickness or more officers leaving the force. Saturday's protest comes on the back of 221 similar arrests across the country, including dozens in London, in the weeks since Palestine Action was banned after activists broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and sprayed two military planes with red paint. Last week, the first three people were charged for flouting the ban. They are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court in September. Ms Cooper has continued to defend proscribing the direct-action group, repeating claims that an assessment found evidence of 'ideas for further attacks' which cannot be reported due to ongoing legal proceedings. 'Many people may not yet know the reality of this organisation, but the assessments are very clear - this is not a non-violent organisation,' she said. 'UK national security and public safety must always be our top priority.' Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori claimed the latest demonstration was 'humiliating' for Ms Cooper and would 'go down in our country's history as a momentous act of collective defiance of an unprecedented attack on our fundamental freedoms'. She said the fact most of those arrested at the protest were 'given street bail and allowed to go home' proved the current ban was 'unenforceable'. 'It's clear that more and more ordinary people appalled by this anti-democratic, authoritarian ban will defy it en-masse and it is simply not possible to arrest them all,' she added.
Daily Mirror
27 minutes ago
- Daily Mirror
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Telegraph
27 minutes ago
- Telegraph
The threat to gay rights comes from trans extremism, not Reform or Trump
Russell T. Davies, one Britain's most celebrated television screenwriters, has a new script – a paranoid, progressive potboiler in which human rights teeter on the brink. In an interview with Big Issue, the Queer as Folk creator and Dr Who lead writer warned that 'things are rapidly and urgently getting worse' for gay people. At home, Reform is gaining support; abroad, President Trump – who danced to Y.M.C.A. at his election rallies – 'would be happier with us invisible and gone… if not biologically altered to become as straight as him.' This, apparently, is the hostile climate that demanded he write Tip Toe – a drama, by his own admission, 'literally no one asked for.' Davies seems unaware that in the UK, gay and bisexual people already have every right worth having – we can marry, serve in the army, adopt, and bore each other senseless about mortgages, just like anyone else. Any threat to those hard-won freedoms now comes not from the state, but from the overreach of activists like Davies himself, and the forced yoking of the LGB to the T – causes that pull in opposite directions. If the Right is gaining ground, it's because the public has grown sick of being bullied into denying biological reality. It's not Reform UK that alienated ordinary parents; it's Stonewall-trained teachers telling six-year-olds they might be born in the wrong body. It's not Nigel Farage who united radical feminists and renegade vicars; it's activists trying to strip away our language, our spaces and our sexual boundaries. Indeed, Reform's promise to 'ban transgender ideology' in schools could shield the next generation from the fiction of being 'born in the wrong body' – a lie that disproportionately ensnares children who will grow up to be same-sex attracted. In this, the party has done more to safeguard gay rights than Davies. The trans lobby has spent the last decade dismantling the definition of homosexuality. Stonewall's former boss, Nancy Kelley, even smeared lesbians who refuse male 'lesbian' partners as 'sexual racists.' The Right has stepped into the void left by progressives, and who can blame them? Yet Davies yearns for the 'anger of the past' and warns of a coming fight. 'They're out to get us,' he says of the US right. 'The whole world is keeping all of us awake… I hope [the younger generation] are prepared to fight… because a fight is coming.' On that, at least, he's half right – a fight is coming. But it's not against imaginary armies of 1950s-style homophobes. It's against an ideology that makes homosexuality unspeakable by erasing the reality of sex. And if the scenes continue to be written by men like Davies, there is a risk that the hard-fought rights of LGB people could be swept away by the justified tide of fury about the excesses of trans activism. If Davies truly wants to defend gay rights, he should stand for the right of same-sex attracted people to exist on our own terms. Otherwise, the bleak finale he fears will be one he co-wrote – and this time there'll be no option to rewind and reset when the credits roll.
