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Podcast: Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
Episode: Farage, Tolerating Torture, and Mass Deportations: Dragging U.K. Justice into Uncharted Waters?
Description: Can the UK tighten its asylum policies without abandoning its commitments to human rights?Â
Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC provide expert legal commentary on the Bell Hotel Judgment and its far-reaching impact on the government’s asylum policy. They examine the legal reasoning, the clash between local and central government, and the Court of Appeal challenge now underway. The conversation also covers the limited turnout at far-right protests, new polling showing immigration dominating public concern, and Nigel Farage’s sweeping Reform proposals.
With public concern rising and party positions hardening, Ken and Tim ask: h...