The Government's Ship Idea
The News Agents
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The Correlation Between Proximity to an Election and Proximity to Local Elections
Britain had a floating jail, The Weir, which was sold in 2005 after eight years of holding prisoners. Rishi Sunak proposed putting illegal immigrants on cruise ships moored around the country but was warned it could be illegal under the Human Rights Act. Each time it's like a little Loch Ness monster, it raises its head and then somebody goes, it's probably illegal and it's too costly and it goes back under the waves again. And I always wonder whether what we should do is try and draw a line between when that is said, and proximity to a local election. Or any kind of election at all. It seems to me there is quite a correlation because I'm going to throw
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