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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Suella Braverman has been condemned for her “utterly repulsive speech” to the Conservative party conference in which she referred to a “hurricane” of migrants on their way to Britain. The home secretary received a standing ovation from Tory attendees after a speech in which she said the Human Rights Act should be renamed the “Criminal […]
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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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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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Suella Braverman has provoked outrage over a U-turn on key pledges after the Windrush scandal and with her controversial plans to x-ray vulnerable child refugees. The home secretary is under fire for abandoning commitments the government made following the inquiry into the Windrush scandal – in the year that marks the 75th anniversary of the […]
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Rishi Sunak has used the cover of getting tough on immigration to ditch another manifesto promise and abandon a key levelling-up pledge to protect workers from rogue employers. Perhaps it was a strategy devised at Monday’s (Dec 12) emergency Cobra meeting on how the government – but more importantly the country – will cope with […]
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Almost one-in-five lone child refugees from Albania have gone missing from care, Kent county council has confirmed. The local authority said 39 of the 197 Albanian children it has taken into care between January 1 and October 31 this year have gone missing. The revelation came to light following a freedom of information request by […]
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The government’s Christmas Eve announcement that it will relax immigration rules for care workers – to bolster a sector double hit by the pandemic and Brexit and left struggling to keep and attract staff – has been denounced as “a sneaky admission of failure” by the Labour party. High vacancy rates and staff turnover is […]
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Boris Johnson’s tweet of his letter to the French president proposing solutions to the migrant crisis has resulted in the home secretary being disinvited to a meeting about the crisis on Sunday. Twenty-seven people died in the channel between England and France on Wednesday trying to cross one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes on […]
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