Joanna Cherry

Joanna Cherry

The Coronavirus Bill contains the most wide-ranging emergency powers ever to be proposed in the UK in peace time. The UK Government say that the Bill will enable action in five key areas – increasing the available health and social care workforce; easing the burden on frontline staff; containing and slowing the virus; managing the deceased with respect and dignity; and supporting people to claim sick pay, and the food industry.

BORIS Johnson’s attempt to shut down Parliament in order to push through his extreme Brexit plans and avoid parliamentary scrutiny and due process has been ruled to be unlawful by the UK’s Supreme Court.

Boris Johnson’s undemocratic move to shut down Parliament in order to force through an extreme Brexit has been ruled to be unlawful and unconstitutional by Scotland’s highest court.

LAST week I was part of a cross party group who brought a case to the Court of Justice of the European Union to establish the conditions under which the UK’s Article 50 notice might be revoked.

Over the Easter recess I joined with three other SNP MPs from the Justice and Home Affairs group and a delegation of experts on refugee matters to bear witness to the conditions and issues in the camps in Calais and Grand-Synthe.