PMQs ends
This week’s PMQs has ended – the Wednesday’s Commons ended up being overshadowed by the news Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri are being released from Iran after six years.
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BREAKING NEWS – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri have left Iran
Reuters and Iran state media say Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri have both left Iran – en route to Britain after years detained.
Iran's state broadcaster confirms that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori have been "handed over to the British government", suggesting that they are with the British negotiating team at the airport.https://t.co/QxXvd0nvH1 pic.twitter.com/gkfvqWq9R6
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Why is the PM attracted to billionaire oligarchs? – ‘He’s social’ says Raab
Raab is asked by a Labour MP about the PM’s links to prominent Russians and what attracted the PM to billionaire oligarchs?
Raab replies the Prime Minister is “a very social individual.”
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Regarding the orphans – Blackford says the case highlights wider problems with the govt response to the refugee crisis.
Raab says the govt is planning for the arrival of 100,000 Ukrainian children in the UK.
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