Paul Conroy, photojournalist partner to Marie Colvin, dies aged 61
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Guardian correspondent covering international trade from European perspective, also post Brexit affairs and Ireland Former Brussels corr, Brexit corr + former media corr. Find me at lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com
Paul Conroy, photojournalist partner to Marie Colvin, dies aged 61
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Great reporting by @londoncentric.media @jim.londoncentric.media extraordinary story
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New: British/Danish couple tell of stress of not knowing if their children will be allowed board flight home from holidays tomorrow. They are angry there was no effective communication about new rules affecting dual national kids: they learned about when away.
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Hi Judith. Government says it’s been on gov.uk since 2024
26.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Home Office - denies "absurd" criticism that it did not communicate dual national border rule change
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Thank you Martin. It is the power, or maybe lack of power in this case, of mainstream media, the Guardian that is free to access around the worlds we had 1.4m page views of first story on 13 Feb and hundreds of emails from people who knew nothing of change which suggests not many people read gov.uk
25.02.2026 22:41 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0First and prob last time my name has been called out in British Parliament - over the Guardian’s coverage of dual nationals issue. Listen to end for Home Office minister reply. Apart from his assertion that Home Office putting something on gov.uk = comms, he doesn’t address the pain of Constituents
25.02.2026 22:11 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 2That first story generated hundreds of emails to my inbox from British dual nationals stressed, stuck and worried they would lose money on imminent trips. Many said they don't look at gov.uk when flying home and first they knew about it was when we wrote about it. I am still getting emails.
25.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 23 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
Mike Tapp home office minister in reply:
"I'm going to let him into a little secret here that perhaps that media coverage is as a result of the home office's efforts to get this information out there as widely as we possibly can."
This is not true. Our first story on 13 Nov - had 1.4m readers
Mike Tapp UK minister to David Davis
"I'm going to let him into a little secret here that perhaps that media coverage is as a result of the home office's efforts to get this information out there as widely as we possibly can."
I can confirm this: This is untrue. Stories were generated by readers
DAvid Davis in parliament today
I am going to take the unusual stop of Madam Deputy Chief of actually thanking two journalists. These are Lisa O'Carroll guardian and whoever writes the BBC website. ... that's relevant because I've got 3 constituents who would not have known about this...
Hello British dual nationals:
If you have been, or know anyone who has been, refused board on a flight, ferry or train to the UK in the coming days, they can share their story here. Or email me direct - email in bio.
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V good blog post on the legality of Home Office decision to ignore pleas of British dyal nationals who from 2day must show UK passport to board flight to UK.
As one reader wrote to me. "This is a transition failure" by HO leading to "hard denial" of rights by HO
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So. new rules on British dual nationals come in tomorrow. I have had hundreds of emails from Brits overseas impacted. Including a few tonight saying a Canadian airline will not accept expired passport. Do email lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com if you know D.N. stopped from boarding flight from 2moro
24.02.2026 22:26 — 👍 39 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 5
New: No grace period for british dual nationals returning home if they don't have current or expired passport or certificate of entitlement from tomorrow.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Explainer: Five ways Donald Trump can avenge the supreme court with "more powerful and more obnoxious" tariffs
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Trump's new tariffs kick in at 10%
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The EU Parliament has paused the US trade deal ratification process. A vote tomorrow morning of the trade committee hass been postponed.
Anna Cavazzini , trade policy spokesperson for the Greens/EFA group, said: “. Given the current enormous uncertainty, a vote would be unjustifiable."
Trump threatens more "obnoxious" tariffs as EU and UK seek clarity over the 15% tariffs
Confusion reigns in business over what tariffs apply, if any, tomorrow.
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Former FT editor Lionel Barber tells BBC of day Prince Andrew rang "to complain about our coverage of Dubai after world financial crisis in 2009. Dubai had to be bailed out.
BBCs Amol Rajan: why is that an unreason with that, he was trade envoy
Barber: He is acting on behalf of a foreign govt
Irish are not affected by this Ben.
22.02.2026 23:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
The times: New passport rules have ruined our family reunion
Mother can come to UK as planned on a £16 electronic travel authorisation as she is not British. But British dad and kids cannot …
www.thetimes.com/article/63d9...
This is a terribly distressing story. Many of us now have children living abroad and Brexit has made a nightmare of mail issues( Ireland included) The freedom of movement the peers of our children enjoy has put many inter national couples decide to settle in the EU not the UK. Now this new barrier!
20.02.2026 20:54 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
EXC: LibDems write to Home Secretary as does former Brexit secretary David Davis to call for urgent grace period for dual nationals returning to U.K. from Wednesday. The stress is “unnecessary”
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US will not back out of tariff deals already done
EU looking for assurances the new 15% tariffs will be just like July inclusive of previous tariffs.
(How does any of it work if tariffs are legal over reach by Trump!?)
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Latest on Trump tariffs:
Jamieson Greer says he won't back out of UK, EU, and other deals
EU calls on US to stick to its deal and not impose a new 15% tariff to replace the 15% all inclusive
full update shortly on the Guardian
Exclusive: Passport changes block British mother from travelling to her elderly mother who is at end-of-life care.
Her MP, ex cabinet minister David Davis calls on home secretary Shabana Mahmood to urgently introduce "grace period"
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Phil Noble the photographer has just snapped history
19.02.2026 19:35 — 👍 141 🔁 21 💬 12 📌 4Prince Andrew released from police custody
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19.02.2026 19:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0True but. They are Kiwis, born and bred in NZ. It's the UK that claims they are British because their father is dual national. Cert of entitlement costs £589 per head, my son has 4 children. My son will revoke his UK nationality at cost 450£
19.02.2026 15:59 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0