his coalition, ensemble , lost around a hundred seats, with major gains for both marine le pen s far right party and a new alliance led by far left leaderjean luc melenchon. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london, with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week, what does international law amount to? on tuesday, judges in british courts decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was conside
by indian politicians. at least three people were killed. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week, what does international law amount to? on tuesday, judges in british courts decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was considering paying subsidies to steel manufacturers in the uk in breach of the rules of the world trade organization. the cod
decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was considering paying subsidies to steel manufacturers in the uk in breach of the rules of the world trade organization. the code says ministers should not break the law. downing street was considering suspending it and asked for his advice. for lord geidt, this was the last straw. on friday, borisjohnson escaped these domestic distractions to spend the day in kyiv. these domestic distractions he is one of the allies of ukraine championing international law as a tool to bring to account rations for actions taken nations for actions ta
rights whose intervention prevented the fight from taking off at all. at a later he became the second independent ethics adviser to resign. the government was considering paying subsidies to steer manufacturers in the uk in breach of the rules. the code says ministers should not operate the law. downing street is considering suspending it. for lord geidt this was the last straw. on friday boris johnson escape these distractions to spend the day in two years and even among the allies championing international law as a tool to bring to account russians for action taken during the invasion. they week investigators said they may have had evidence of serious breaches of international law which perhaps amount to war crimes. we will discuss those three aspects in is still here with me is ian who writes for the on sunday and let return for the on sunday and let return for from for the on sunday and let return forfrom a for the on sunday and let return for from a lengthy s
but the point being, only two countries has been expelled or have left the european human rights court. that was russia and greece when it was under a dictatorship. borisjohnson is saying, well, maybe we shouldn t be part of it either. this is posturing for the election. but let s be clear. you talk about this country and the rule of law, setting an example and how do we talk about russia and human rights incursions, etc. there is a class in this country, and i say this as somebody who has lived here for 12 years, that thinks it is entitled to do as it wishes and ignore the law. we saw this with partygate. now we are seeing it again. that we don t have to follow human rights law, we can do it on our own. that is a consistent theme in this government. i want to pick up on that, in truth, international human rights law is kind of voluntary. people have chosen to adopt this.