Lying politicians in the Senedd may finally be held to account – but why should we stop at Wales? | Sam Fowles

Lying politicians in the Senedd may finally be held to account – but why should we stop at Wales? | Sam Fowles

The Welsh parliament could make wilfully misleading the public a criminal offence. The rest of the UK deserves the same protection In 2019, I helped prove in court that the then prime minister misled the Queen. Boris Johnson claimed he prorogued parliament for purely administrative reasons. The circumstances, the court concluded, demonstrated that “the true…

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‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: the Saudi sisters jailed and intimidated for wanting equal rights

‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: the Saudi sisters jailed and intimidated for wanting equal rights

One was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives In September 2022, Fawzia al-Otaibi was a week into a trip to her home country of…

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