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Children are still at risk of being radicalised in school despite attempts to crack down on extremists after the Trojan Horse scandal, Ofsted’s chief inspector is expected to tell MPs next week.

Appearing at the education select committee on January 28, Sir Michael Wilshaw is expected to warn of a continued risk from extremism in the wake of the Trojan Horse affair — an alleged plot to Islamicise teaching in Birmingham state schools. Whitehall sources said Wilshaw remained “very concerned” about the risk of children being radicalised.

Inspectors will revisit schools in Birmingham this year amid fears that, six months after being put in special measures, they have failed to change. “Some are struggling still with the same problems,” a source said. rals to Channel, a government rorism police could be Sian Griffiths p.4 counter-radicalisation scheme, deployed on the streets under EDUCATION EDITOR have been aged under 18. plans by Scotland Yard to CHILDREN are still at risk of Some of the referrals stem combat the threat of a fresh being radicalised in school from teachers tightening terrorist atrocity despite attempts to crack down checks on children who show n Police officers have been on extremists after the Trojan signs of wanting to fight in instructed to remove their Horse scandal, Ofsted’s chief Syria. A head teacher in a north names from the electoral reginspector is expected to tell London borough told The ister and to avoid wearing any MPs next week.

Sunday Times she had reported part of their uniform when Would-be Eurostar passengers queue at St Pancras yesterday after services were suspended to work, amid conAppearing at the education four students to Prevent, which travelling Tim Shipman & James Lyons cern they could be targeted by select committee on January is part of the programme.

Mark Hookham and Josh Boswell They included a 16-year-old terrorists 28, Sir Michael Wilshaw is Senior figures in the Labour expected to warn of a con- girl who wanted to raise funds n David Cameron and Barack housands of passengers faced travcancelled for the rest of the day.

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Inspectors are also going to change. “Some are strug- to behead policemen. train crew were evacuated into the shuttles and four lorry shuttles every Shireen were trying to get to Paris “One woman is having a bit of a nightThe Sunday Times can reveal back into Sir John Cass’s Foungling still with the same probnorth tunnel, which is used by trains hour around the clock, also suspended after a two week lems,” holidaya in the UK. she has got a hotel booked dation and Red Coat Church of that: source said. mare because going from the UKpassengers to France, ataround its services, althoughafter its trains were due “We went and sat down on the in referLondon for tonight andmore the hotel is Continued on page 4 uu Would-be Eurostar queue at St Pancras yesterday services were suspended Nearly halftrain, the 4,000 to 800 countertern Up 11.30am. Passengers told how they were to start using the south tunnel again but then it got cancelled. They made saying she can’t cancel the booking now given gas masks and taken to a “safe last night. Eurostar were unable to say a few announcements and then they because it’s too late and she is going to room”, where they waited two hours when it would resume services. got us off,” Shawn Shahidi said. get charged. There are few of those sort before being evacuated to the surface.

By early afternoon yesterday a huge In a statement issued yesterday afof conversations going on.”

Downing Street sources say NumThere were no injuries. queue of Eurostar passengers attemptternoon Eurostar said: “We are sorry The fire was detected when the UKber 10 and Obama’s staff enjoyed a “Our train was filled with smoke,” said ing to re-book their tickets was snaking but we are unable to run any further bound Eurotunnel train was around private drinks reception in the White Ben Lawton, one of the lorry drivers. outside St Pancras station in London, trains today because Eurotunnel has 12 miles into the tunnel.

House before sitting down to talks there are “no barriers” and OVERSEAS PRICES NEWS 2 Hellen “At first we just thought it was a little where trains bound for the continent been closed due to Nicholas smoke detected John Keefe, director of affairs at Euon Friday. The president immedi“huge safety benefits” to trials NEWS 32 WEATHER and Mark Hookham technical error. ... when the cabin realdepart. Some passengers said they had in the north tunnel.” rotunnel, said: “Once wetechnology: get the detecof the new “Driv- LETTERS NEWS 28 ately took off his jacket and rolled MINISTERS have decided The lorry was on board a evacuated cars are the future. We SUDOKU into the north NEWS REVIEW 9 ly started to fill with smoke we thought been queuing for three hours.

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Former prime ministers are also only currently required to seek advice on any appointments they wish to take up for a period of two years.

Blair clients have included the Nursultan Nazarbayev, the autocratic president of Kazakhstan, where his consultancy has been paid an estimated £8m a year. He has also accepted an advisory role for the gas pipeline that will run from Azerbaijan to Europe. The Azerbaijan regime was criticised by the United States last month over its “crackdown on civil society”.

A document drafted in support of the early day motion claims Blair stands to earn millions of pounds in advisory fees for work on the $45bn pipeline project, which is based on information from Azerbaijan. Tony Blair’s office said the claims regarding the advisory fees were inaccurate and a “complete invention”. It declined to comment on the money Blair would be paid for his advice.

Andrew Bridgen, the Conservative MP for north west Leicestershire, said former prime ministers should be bound for life by the seven principles of public life, known as the Nolan principles, which include accountability and openness. He is to table an early day motion calling greater oversight on the work prime ministers can accept after leaving office.

He said: “Tony Blair has embarked on a career of personal enrichment and has blurred the lines between his public and private interests. No other former prime minister has gone to work for other sovereign states. Mr Blair is still in public life, but is not

bound its principles - and that needs to be changed.”

Blair can still claim an allowance from the public purse in connection with his public duties as a former prime minister. In 2012/13, the most recent year for which figures are available, he claimed £115,000, which is the maximum that can be claimed. All former prime minsters are entitled to the allowance.

The challenge to Blair over his burgeoning financial empire comes as he faces acute parliamentary scrutiny over his record in office. He was summoned to appear before a parliamentary committee last week over letters sent to fugutive IRA suspects during his premiership saying they were no longer wanted by police. Blair was admonished by the committee for being

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“ amongst friends” a source said.

But Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, who was also in Washington last week, told friends it was “extraordinary” that Obama had agreed to write a newspaper article with the prime minister, in which the president backed the Tory leader’s economic policies. The president repeated the endorsement in a press conference on Friday and confirmed that he likes to call Cameron “bro”.

“Ed thinks it was extraordinary that Obama used that language,” said a source familiar with Balls’ thinking.

Others are irritated that David Axelrod, Obama’s former campaign guru, who is employed by Labour on a contract reputed to be worth £300,000, has failed to persuade West Wing staff to distance themselves from Cameron.

“It was all a bit nauseating and depressing,” said one Labour frontbencher. “It’s not helpful that Obama went above and beyond the call of duty with Cameron. I’m not quite sure why we’re paying Axelrod £300,000. We should ask for our money back.”

The Labour leader was granted a “brush by” meeting with Obama last year but members of the shadow cabinet admit Miliband’s decision not to back air strikes on Syria has cooled relations with the president’s team.

Claims that foreign leaders would prefer to see Cameron triumph in May were fuelled when Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, did not ask to meet Miliband on a recent visit to London.

In an interview with US network CBS, broadcast today, Cameron confirmed that Obama sometimes calls him “bro” but denied having a nick-

name for the president. “It’s normally ‘Barack’ and ‘David’, but every now and again there’s been some other things thrown around and I suppose ‘bro’ is one of them. But I took that in good heart.”

He added: “We’ve been thrown together in a lot of different situations, and we don’t always agree, but what I find is that he has a very calm and reasonable, rational, sensible, level headed way of trying to address these great challenges. And it’s been a pleasure to work with him.”

A spokesman for Miliband said: “Barack Obama met Ed which is not something he normally does with a leader of the oppsoition. I don’t think the White House is endorsing any political party in this election and nor should they be.”

Meanwhile, Miliband faced further embarrassment after a Labour activist said party members have been told not to mention the economy.

Cecil Jenkins, form Hampstead, a party member for 20 years, said officials had warned it was “not one of our strengths” in the general election battle.

Addressing Miliband during a question-and-answer session Jenkins, who is in his 80s, said: “We have been told

by London region not to talk too much about the economy because it is not one of our strengths. Can this conceivably be true?”

Miliband immediately fired back “no”.

He went on to say: “We should talk about the economy as much as possible between now and the general election because they have failed.” @shippersunbound

“extremely disrespectful” after intially saying he was too busy to attend.

The former prime minister is also awaiting the publication of the Iraq war inquiry report which is expected to be highly critical of the way he took Britain to war.

Since leaving office, Blair has created a business and charitable empire spanning the globe. He has dismissed reports that he is worth more £100m, suggesting the figure is closer to £20m.

The Sunday Times revealed last year details of a secret contract Blair had secured with a Saudi Arabian oil firm, PetroSaudi, which stipulated Tony Blair Associates would be paid a 2% success fee for any deals it helped set up. The contract stated that Blair’s paid role should be kept confidential.

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structure which he admits is designed to avoid what he considers would be unfair scrutiny of his clients. One of his companies, Windrush Ventures, published accounts earlier this month revealing a turnover over of £14.2m. Tony Blair’s office says the accounts for Windrush and related entities: “do not represent his earnings or the earnings or the profit of his business and are not referable to them.”

The new gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Italy is known as the southern corridor project and is backed by BP and SOCAR, the Azerbaijan state oil company.

Blair sits on the advisory panel with Peter Sutherland, the chairman of Goldman Sachs. Sutherland is also a former chairman of BP and visited Libya with Blair in May 2007, when the oil company signed a £450m exploration deal. The third member of the panel is Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the former German foreign minister.

A BP spokesman said the southern corridor advisory panel would advise on political, environmental and reputational challenges during the construction of the pipeline, which is due to be completed by 2019. BP said the 11 companies involved in the project wanted “an external panel they could all trust.”

Hugh Williamson, director of the Europe & Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch, said Blair may consider he was not technically advising the Azerbaijan regime, but it was “dodging the issue” on human rights because SOCAR was wholly state owned.

He said: “In 2014, there a was major round up in Azerbaijan of important leaders of independent organisations

who were were critical of the government who have been put in prison”.

The US State Department called on the country to uphold human rights last month after dozens of journalists were detained and interrogated.

Williamson said Blair should speak out on strongly on human rights abuses in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan - or not accept work from those countries.

He said: “We feel that [Blair] should not be taking roles where he is being used as a fig leaf for the problems of authoritarian governments unless he is ready to make clear statement about his concerns about the human rights situations in those countries.”

The document which has been drafted to support Bridgen’s early day motion states that Blair has a two-year contract for the consortium, paid at a rate of £6m a year. Tony Blair’s office would not comment on the proposed duration of his work on the panel, but strongly denied the figure for the fees.

A spokesman for Tony Blair said: “The case for the pipeline has been made by the UK government and the EU on many occasions because of its importance for energy security and diversity of supply. The advisory panel is jointly funded by the four Southern Corridor projects and the companies involved in them. We do not disclose Mr Blair’s earnings but the figures you suggest are risible and a complete invention.”

When asked about the proposal for greater scrutiny of prime ministers after leaving office, the spokesman responded : ““It’s up to parliamentarians to decide what they want to discuss.”

Labour accused over Welsh Tim Chipman

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Ed Miliband was accused of “turning a blind eye” to a crisis in the Welsh NHS last night as the Tories sought to put Labour’s stewardship of the health service there at the heart of the general election campaign.

One of Britain’s leading surgeons and a group of more than 100 patients called on the Labour leader to back a public inquiry into the state of the NHS in Wales, warning that it resembles the scandal at Mid Staffordshire hospital, where more than 1,200 patients died amid scenes of neglect.

Professor Sir Norman Williams, the former president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said there are “significant problems” in the Welsh health service and called for “an investigation akin to the Francis Inquiry into Mid Staffs”.

Miliband has privately said he wants to “weaponise” the issue of NHS problems in England to win the general election.

But in a letter to the Labour leader last night, 105 patients who have suffered at the hands of the Welsh NHS condemned the “scandalous postcode lottery” of care between Wales and England and accused him of “hypocrisy” for failing to speak out.

They said: “You regularly claim that the English NHS is in a state of ‘crisis’. However, you have consistently refused to comment on the situation in Wales, where you lead the party that runs the health service.

“As the leader of the Labour Party, we are asking you to take responsibility for this state of affairs, to back a public inquiry into the condition of the Welsh NHS. “It is simply hypocrisy to call crisis in England and then turn a blind eye to the more serious situation in Wales.”

Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, seized on the intervention last night and accused Miliband of prioritising political point scoring rather than

patient care. He said: “Miliband’s ‘weaponise’ strategy simply confirms an uncomfortable truth about his party: for Labour, politics matter more than patients.”

David Cameron is expected to launch a fresh onslaught on Labour’s handling of the NHS in Wales this week. He will point to a report by the House of Commons library, published on December 30, which found that the NHS in Wales performs worse than England on almost every major measure.

Figures released on Friday found that just 81% of patients were seen in Welsh accident and emergency departments within four hours compared with 90% in English A&Es last week.

The House of Commons report found that in 2013-14, 13 per cent of patients at major departments in Wales spent over four hours in A&E – “around double the percentage recorded by major

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For three years, an English hereditary peer has battled to uncover the truth behind the death of his 28-yearold son and heir, who was fatally injured in Kenyan police custody after his arrest on drug charges in 2012.

Next month , Lord Monson will get his chance to “see the whites of the eyes” of the policemen he accuses of murder.

Kenyan authorities announced in Mombasa last week that a full inquest into the death of Alexander Monson, who according to autopsy reports suffered “blunt force trauma” to his head, will begin on February the 16th.

For Alexander’s parents and sister, the decision offers a fragment of hope that the tragic events following his arrest on suspicion of smoking cannabis on a warm evening in May 2012 will at last be examined in court.

“I’d just like to see those men,” Lord Monson said last week. “They have been hiding from justice.”

The decision to proceed with an inquest follows intense British pressure on Kenyan authorities and a passionate family campaign to end what Alexander’s sister, Isabella, once described as “a series of smears, lies and cover-ups”. A Kenyan report concluding that Alexander died of a drug overdose was dismissed by his father as “a shameful whitewash”.

Keriako Tobiko, the Kenyan director of public prosecutions, said the inquest would take evidence from 56 witnesses, prompting Lord Monson to label his announcement as “an extraordinary development”. He added: “It has taken almost three years but it is a very positive step. Will it bring full justice? I think that is unlikely but you cannot rule it out.”

Once described by his father as a “golden boy”, Alexander was a pupil at Marlborough College at the same

NHS departments in England”.

The paper says the “England-wide figure” for ambulance waiting times “is higher than that achieved in even the best-performing Welsh area”.

The target for cancer patients referred by a GP to begin treatment within 62 days has not been met in Wales since mid 2008.

A Labour spokesman said: “David Cameron attacks Wales to run away from his own record in England where A&Es are in crisis and patients are waiting longer for operations and cancer treatment.

“The independent Nuffield Trust found that no one part of the UK has a health service that is consistently ahead or behind.

“The Welsh NHS improved dramatically in the last 15 years. When the Tories were last in charge in Wales, patients waited two years for operations – that’s why people don’t trust them with the NHS.”

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He was based in London, but spent part of the year in Kenya with his mother, Hilary, 60, who is separated from Lord Monson. She runs a complex of self-catering cottages at the Indian Ocean resort of Diani, which boasts a beautiful white beach about 20 miles south of Mombasa.

He was out in Diani with friends when police picked him up and accused him of smoking cannabis. He spent a night alone in a police cell, and when his friends saw him at the station the next morning, he was lyng unconscious and struggling to breathe.

He was taken to Diani Palm Hospital, where he was handcuffed to a bed under police guard, but he died soon afterwards of a massive blood clot on his brain.

The police initially claimed they had been about to interview him when he complained of feeling sick and was immediately taken to hospital. They blamed his death on a drug overdose, but subsequent pathology reports found injuries to his head, his groin and his left arm, all consistent with a beating.

Lord Monson is convinced that his son died at the hands of brutal policemen who routinely administered beatings to suspects. “First of all they kick them in the testicles,” he said. “The person then crouches down because they are in such pain”.

He went on: “Alexander was left-handed, so he lifted his left arm above his head to defend himself from a truncheon. They smashed him on the arm and then this brute did his business.”

Toxicology tests found no trace of drugs in Alexander’s body. Yet the Ken-

yan Criminal Investigation Department cleared the police of any wrongdoing, while offering no further explanation as to a possible cause of death.

Alexander’s divided family joined forces to campaign for a full inquiry, holding vigils outside the Kenyan embassy and lobbying President Uhuru Kenyatta during the Kenyan leader’s visit to London.

Lord Monson said yesterday he intended to visit Kenya for the hearing. “I want to see the whites of the eyes of the policemen who were in the station that night,” he added. “There are two or three people who were involved in what happened to my son and they are walking free. They are in uniform and they are carrying out their business with impunity.”

Alexander’s mother, Hilary , still lives in Kenya. She was visiting Nairobi on the evening her son was arrested but returned in time to see him in hospital.

“He was chained to the bed the whole time, even as he lay there dying,” she said.

“It was only when he had turned blue and the doctors were trying finally to resuscitate him that the police agreed to rewlease him from the handcuffs.”

Isabella Monson was edting a magazine in Kenya at the time. “There is no worse a feeling than not knowing or understanding how a loved one died,” she said.

Isabella has since returned to live in Britain where she and her father have set up two pressure groups: one to fight for justice for Alexander and another to combat police brutality.

Lord Monson has also been involved in the campaign to allow daughters to inherit hereditary titles. Lord Monson said he embraced the principle of female equality and wanted Isabella to inherit the title that should have been Alexander’s.

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