The notices threaten to be the latest setback in plans to find cheaper accommodation to house asylum seekers than hotels, which ministers say is costing the tax payer £6m a day.Īs well as military bases, the government also wants to use barges and ultimately hopes to deport people to Rwanda, but the schemes have been mired in difficulty and delay. Over summer, the council was given permission to bring a High Court challenge against the Home Office, with a judicial review set for October 31 and November 1. There has been resistance to the move to convert it into asylum accommodation from the outset, with local leaders fearful it will see the scrapping of a £300m deal to turn the base into a heritage site. RAF Scampton is the former home of The Red Arrows aerobatics display team and the Dambusters - the squadron that carried out one of the Second World War's most famous air raids. The new notices were issued after a further site visit on September 14, which uncovered what the council deemed to be further breaches. The council deemed there had been a breach of planning controls with certain works having the potential to cause irreversible damage to important heritage assets. The move follows a temporary stop notice being issued to the Home Office on 8 September, which related to listed buildings and archaeology on the site. Sally Grindrod-Smith, director of planning regeneration, said at a site visit last week, officers observed a number of issues considered to be planning breaches. It means work must cease at the former airbase, which is set to be used to house 2,000 asylum seekers. West Lindsey District Council has issued the government with an enforcement notice and stop notice in regards to RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. "Our letter is a warning that we are prepared to take further legal action if ministers refuse to show their working behind the prime minister's assertion that the government will still meet its net zero commitments." Legal director of Good Law Project, Emma Dearnaley, said in a statement: "We are not at all convinced by Rishi Sunak's bold claim that his government can backslide on key climate policies and still be on track to meet upcoming carbon budgets. It also wants the government to provide evidence that it took advice from the independent Climate Change Committee before announcing the rollback. The organisation is calling on Ms Coutinho to explain how the UK will meet its legally binding obligations under the Climate Change Act 2008 to dramatically reduce carbon emissions by 2050.
The activist legal organisation Good Law Project has written a letter to Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho "demanding answers" about the rollback. Rishi Sunak's government is being threatened with legal action after he announced he is watering down policies designed to help the UK reach net zero. "If we win a majority of seats, which I'm very confident that we will, in the general election next year then that will be a mandate for us to give democratic effect to independence," he said. This would empower the SNP to demand another referendum on Scottish independence. Stephen Flynn, the SNP's Westminster leader, said he was "very confident" his party can win a majority of seats in Scotland at the next general election. "He's a very, very powerful political figure who has, without being elected by a single person, had a huge disruptive and pernicious and poisonous impact on our democracy, Australian democracy, US democracy and democracies all over the world."įlynn 'confident' SNP can win mandate for independence referendum "This isn't just some media owner," he said. Left-wing commentator Owen Jones had a more extreme view, telling Ridge that "Rupert Murdoch has been the most poisonous individual of my lifetime".
Murdoch is 'most poisonous individual of my lifetime' "I think building his businesses came first with him rather than being a megalomaniac and inflicting his views on the rest of the world." Murdoch "would give a fair wind to people in power until the point that he felt that they were obstructing his businesses", Boulton said. Sky News commentator Adam Boulton told Sophy Ridge that Rupert Murdoch - who is stepping back from his media empire - had been motivated by his business interests over political ideology. Murdoch's motivation is business over ideology Just in case you didn't manage to watch, here are the highlights from last night's Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge , which airs Monday to Thursday from 7pm on Sky News.
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