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UK to ignore ECHR rulings on small boats ‘after Sunak caves in to Tory right’ The Guardian says Rishi Sunak has caved in to demands from hard-right MPs to allow the UK to ignore rulings from the European court of human rights on small boat crossings, government sources have said. Backbench rebels have been pushing the prime minister to harden the illegal migration bill so ministers to can ignore interim rulings. One of the Strasbourg court’s rule 39 injunctions blocked the government’s first attempt to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda last year. These so-called interim measures are typically used to suspend…

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Today’s news summary – Paper Talk Several of Thursday’s front pages report on the rate of inflation after figures revealed it stuck above 10% in March. There are a couple of UK political stories and news about the upcoming coronation.  The Mirror describes the impact of the increasing cost of living on struggling families as a “living nightmare”. The i reports on concerns at The Treasury about the failure to drive down inflation more quickly, with fears that domestically-generated inflation is higher than anticipated and global pressures, such as gas prices, are beginning to ease. The Daily Telegraph reports on…

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