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She added: "Parents are already struggling with fairly reasonable fees – now 20% on top does seem an affront to human rights."

Ms de Perthuis would take account of the national context, they thought, and the affront done to democracy if a front-runner for the 2027 presidential election were to be disbarred from the race.

“These orders are an affront to the President’s broad constitutional and statutory authority to protect the United States from dangerous aliens who pose grave threats to the American people,” they said on behalf of Atty.

Writing in the Times newspaper, Sir Keir said the current system was "actively incentivising" people away from work and represented an "affront to the values of our country".

A group of civil liberties groups made a similar plea, saying barring the media would be an "affront to the global privacy and security issues that are being discussed."