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Portrait of the week | 11 February 2016

issue 13 February 2016

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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that if Britain left the European Union, France could stop allowing British officials to make immigration checks on the French side of the border, and, his spokesman predicted: ‘You have potentially thousands of asylum seekers camped out in northern France who could be here almost overnight.’ Mr Cameron denounced the way prisons are being run by his administration: ‘Current levels of prison violence, drug-taking and self-harm should shame us all.’ Junior doctors went on strike again for 24 hours.

Twelve men of Pakistani heritage were jailed for up to 20 years for the rape and sexual abuse of a girl when she was aged 13 and 14, over a period of two years, in Keighley, West Yorkshire. A Metropolitan Police investigation into an allegation of rape against the late Leon Brittan was ‘necessary, proportionate and fully justified’, according to a report by James Vaughan, deputy chief constable of Dorset police.

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