in a major blow to the prime minister tonight, the minister responsible for immigration, robertjenrick, has resigned at the very moment legislation on asylum seekers was being announced to the commons. his resignation came over a bill attempting to enable the government s policy of sending some migrants to rwanda to go ahead after the supreme court ruled it unlawful. mrjenrick said it didn t go far enough and it would not end what he called the merry go round of legal challenges which risked paralysing the scheme. our political editor chris mason is here. a huge embarrassment this for rishi sunak? it this for rishi sunak? is a huge embarrassment. bu quite it is a huge embarrassment. but quite the thing to do so in the very week that you are attempting a reset on, yes, you guessed it, immigration policy. on monday we had government plans to cut legal immigration adjuster the home secretary james cleverly went to rwanda to set out part of the approach on illegal immigration
it didn t take that many vehicles to block the business land border crossing in canada. but it is taking hours for police to clear the ambassador bridge blockade. for the moment, the officers are trying negotiation tactics to try and get protesters to leave peacefully after six days of demonstrations. their message that the tried to send from the very beginning has clearly lost its way and i don t think the people here, notjust the police, but the people in our community or on the other side of the border are hearing it any more. who are you protecting? with a vital trade route interrupted, the province of ontario declared a state of emergency on friday the plot in penalties like heavy fines and possible jail time for those participating in the blockades. that came into force hours later, alongside a court granted injunction to remove the protesters. it took just days for the blockade on the ambassador bridge to put a squeeze on the supply chains and car makers on both sides of the bor
parliament that he was hoping to see an end to parliament that he was hoping to see an end to the final covid restrictions and clearly trying to signal restrictions and clearly trying to signal how the government wants to operate signal how the government wants to operate with a move towards businesses, communities and individuals taking more personal responsibility, which is something a lot of responsibility, which is something a lot of backbench mps will welcome. this week, lot of backbench mps will welcome. this week, borisjohnson lot of backbench mps will welcome. this week, boris johnson would be leaving this week, boris johnson would be leaving london and travelling the uk and giving leaving london and travelling the uk and giving a tour to show what the government s levelling up agenda is about government s levelling up agenda is about and government s levelling up agenda is about and highlighting some projects associated with that. expect to see lots of associat
to restore a smaller state . writing in the daily telegraph, steve barclay that it was time to return to a more enabling approach after nearly two years of government intervention because of the pandemic. protests against covid regulations are continuing in canada, where traffic has been brought to a standstill at a key trading route with the united states. police were called in to clear the blockade which has been going on for nearly a week. jessica murphy reports. it didn t take that many vehicles to block the busiest land border crossing in canada, but it is taking hours for police to clear the bridge blockade. the officers are trying negotiation tactics to get protesters to leave peacefully after six days of demonstrations. the messa . e six days of demonstrations. the message they six days of demonstrations. tue: message they tried six days of demonstrations. t t;e: message they tried to six days of demonstrations. tt9: message they tried to send six days of demonstrations. tt
of essex and the whole of the united kingdom. 0ne local councillor who was at the scene expressed the shock felt in the community. we ve lost a very good, hard working constituency mp who worked for everyone, didn t matter who you were, didn t matter about your religion or your culture, if you had a problem, he would work for you. police say they are keeping an open mind as to whether this could be. we will bring you all the latest reaction in the next hour. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six.