The United States government under former President Donald Trump is preparing to send another group of Iranians back to their home country this Sunday, sources familiar with the plan revealed. This deportation flight marks the second under a rare arrangement between Washington and Tehran, two countries that currently lack formal diplomatic ties. The operation is […]
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Why Rishi Sunak chose the occasion of today’s PMQs to take a petty swipe at the leader of a friendly nation ultimately confirmed Sir Keir Starmer’s withering observation that the prime minister does indeed have the “reverse Midas touch”. Even before PMQs, Sunak’s “reverse Midas touch” was being revealed in committee hearings which heard first […]
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Conservative MPs are furious with the Home Office over the Bibby Stockholm fiasco after legionella bacteria was detected on board the controversial barge being used to house asylum seekers. All 39 asylum seekers have been evacuated from the barge, just five days after being moved on to the vessel that is docked at Portland, South […]
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Downing Street has backed Lee Anderson’s message to asylum seekers after the deputy chairman of the Conservative party told them to “fuck off back to France” if they don’t like barges. A refugee charity said Anderson’s “dehumanising and inflammatory” language was putting people seeking sanctuary in the UK at “real risk”. However, No 10 said […]
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Rishi Sunak said his government will appeal against the Court of Appeal’s ruling that his government’s Rwanda policy is unlawful. Judges said the African country had not provided enough detail to prove it is a “safe third country” and that refugees deported there by Britain could be forced to return to the country from which […]
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Net migration to the UK could reach one million this year – almost double the record set last year. Reducing net migration was a key Conservative promise in the 2019 general election. However, figures to be released by the Office for National Statistics in two weeks time will show that net migration will be even […]
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Suella Braverman did not invite journalists from the BBC, Guardian, Independent or Daily Mirror on her Rwanda trip and is only taking reporters from media outlets perceived as “friendly” to the government. Representatives from outlets including GB News, the Times, Telegraph, Express and Daily Mail are accompanying the home secretary on the tax-payer funded two-day […]
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Rishi Sunak’s pledge to stop people arriving to the UK in small boats is doomed to failure senior Tory MPs have warned, ahead of the prime minister’s key bill being introduced to parliament on Tuesday. One former minister called Sunak’s plans to stop small boats “a joke” and nothing more than electioneering to try and […]
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Home Office regulations affecting millions of EU citizens living in the UK under the settlement scheme are unlawful, a high court judge has ruled. A watchdog guarding EU citizens’ rights in the UK has warned the current scheme could create hundreds-of-thousands of illegal immigrants overnight. The measures are part of the post-Brexit EU settlement scheme […]
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The High Court has ruled it is lawful for the UK government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. The High Court also ruled in favour of eight asylum seekers who were set to have been on the first flight from the UK to Rwanda in June. Judges found that the eight individual cases had not […]
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