In her statement, Rayner announced six new devolution areas which she hoped would get to elect new mayors in May 2026: Cumbria, Cheshire and Warrington, Greater Essex, Hampshire and Solent, Norfolk and Suffolk, and Sussex and Brighton.
Trump has said Mr Khalil's arrest is the first of "many to come", pledging to crack down on college protesters who he accuses of sympathising with Hamas.His detainment has sparked nationwide protests. Outside of court, demonstrators chanted and waved flags in support of Mr Khalil and Palestinians. Among the protesters was actress Susan Sarandon, who told the BBC that Trump officials were trying to "disappear" Mr Khalil.
Mr Khalil's lawyer Ramzi Kassem said outside court that his case should "outrage anybody in the United States who thinks speech should be free".US civil rights advocates, lawmakers and some Jewish groups have said that deporting Mr Khalil would violate American due process rights and is an attack on free speech.The Immigration and Nationality Act allows the State Department to deport noncitizens who are "adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests" of the US. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the US could deport visa and green card holders for "virtually any reason".
Still, legal experts said the case against Mr Khalil is unprecedented."Targeting individual protesters just for protesting ... is highly unusual and something that we haven't seen before, even under the first Trump administration," said Jacob Hamburger, a visiting assistant professor at Cornell Law School.
Mr Khalil's wife, who has not been named, detailed her husband's arrest in a statement released by their lawyers on Tuesday. She said that the pair were confronted by immigration agents on Saturday when they returned to their apartment from a dinner.
The officials did not provide a warrant or a reason for arrest, she said, and ended a call to the couple's lawyers. They then handcuffed Mr Khalil and forced him into an unmarked car.and faces a sentence of more than 30 years in prison.
Speaking two years after the attack in 2024, Sir Salman said his eye was left hanging down his face "like a soft-boiled egg", and that losing it upsets him "every day"."I remember thinking I was dying," he said.
"Fortunately, I was wrong."Sir Salman said he used his new book, Knife, as a way of fighting back against what happened.