In last week’s PMQs, Sir Keir had said home secretary Yvette Cooper had got her team “working on closing this loophole” after the Tory leader questioned him about the tribunal’s findings, which she said were “completely wrong”.
A government spokesperson said: “The prime minister has made clear that it is for parliament to make the laws and for the government to decide policy.
She hasn’t quite done her homework, because the decision in question was taken under the last government according to the legal framework for the last government.
Sir Keir Starmer has found himself in a row with the most senior judge in England and Wales after criticising an immigration decision at last week’s Prime Minister’s Questions.
Responding to Baroness Carr’s rare intervention on Tuesday, Ms Badenoch insisted that “parliament is sovereign” and politicians must be able to discuss matters of “crucial public importance” to the UK.
