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Valve is offering up to 100 Steam Deck portables during The Game Awards event on Thursday night, in a free lottery that anyone can enter.

‘Ryan Giggs was getting booed week in and week out for a sustained amount of time. Let that sink in!’

Can the new Rwanda bill work and what could stop it? BBC News says expert lawyers who have been involved in the Rwanda case – or supported the challenge to the policy – have described new legislation as potentially setting up a politically explosive fight with both the Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights. In last month’s Supreme Court ruling, five justices unanimously ruled that the country was not safe – and they listed the detailed evidence about how its asylum system was deeply flawed. The key element of the government’s package tries to deal with this part…

Rishi Sunak is meeting with Conservative MPs as he publishes his emergency legislation to get Rwanda flights off the ground.

A lot, apparently.

The Financial Times goes with the resignation of immigration minister Robert Jenrick, saying it scuppered Rishi Sunak’s bid to reunite his party.

Elementor #570287December 7, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today The Guardian – Tories in turmoil as immigration minister quits over Rwanda bill The Guardian says the resignation of immigration minister Robert Jenrick has plunged Rishi Sunak’s government into “further crisis”. The paper says Jenrick resigned just hours after the prime minister proposed a bill to support the Rwanda deportation policy. He stepped down because the legislation didn’t allow the government to bypass international laws preventing the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda. In a letter, the MP for Newark criticised Sunak’s bill as “a triumph of hope over…

Elementor #570279December 7, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today Metro – Sorry for your loss The Metro leads on Boris Johnson’s appearance at the COVID inquiry, reporting that the former prime minister apologised for underestimating the impact of the virus. The paper notes he looked ‘teary’ as he apologised.  The paper also calls him ‘cowardly’ for showing up three hours ahead of schedule for his Covid inquiry session. His early arrival meant he missed encountering protesting families of COVID victims. But as he apologised for the pain and loss experienced by those families, at the beginning of his…

Elementor #570267December 7, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today The Mirror – The dead can’t hear your apologies The Daily Mirror leads on Boris Johnson’s apology at the COVID inquiry, saying the bereaved families were not impressed. The paper says families who lost loved ones told Boris Johnson “the dead can’t hear your apologies” as he said sorry for pandemic mistakes. Appearing at the Covid Inquiry, he admitted his government “underestimated” the threat posed as he missed key meetings when the virus hit. “I look at all this stuff, in which we seem so oblivious, with horror now,…