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Labour MPs Demand Colleagues Lose Whip Over Palestine Action Vote

03 Jul Foreign affairs

Labour MPs have urged the government to remove the party whip from nine MPs who voted against proscribing Palestine Action.

03 Jul Home affairs

MPs Asked For Views On Islamophobia Definition

28 Jun Communities

Labour APCC Chair Warns Spending Review "Isn't Going To Go Far Enough" For Policing

26 Jun Home affairs

The 3am Call: Preparing For The Worst

23 Jun Foreign affairs

Home Office Proscribes Palestine Action Under Terrorism Law

22 Jun Communities

Immigration Policies Could Produce Another Windrush Generation, Labour MP Warns

20 Jun Economy

Reeves Urged To Open Door To US Business Talent Fleeing Trump

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01 Jul Home affairs

FIRS will protect the UK against foreign manipulation

Women’s Aid urges reform as 19 more children killed due to statutory and legislative failures

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01 Jul Home affairs

Women’s Aid urges reform as 19 more children killed due to statutory and legislative failures

13 Jun Home affairs

Where was commitment to the Met in the Spending Review?

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Labour MPs Demand Colleagues Lose Whip Over Palestine Action Vote

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02 Mar Home affairs

Baroness Bertin's porn review: 'This isn't me driving a tank onto the lawn of censorship'

Will the government clamp down on legal but harmful online pornography? Sienna Rodgers talks to Conservative peer Baroness Bertin about her new review, which comes with a warning for ministers

29 Jan Home affairs

HM chief inspector of prisons: 'If someone were to get a gun into a prison, all bets are off'

Speaking to Sienna Rodgers, HM chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor details the many failures he has seen across the prison estate, including the ‘existential risk’ presented by phones, drugs and weapons entering via drones

28 Jan Communities

Inside the problems plaguing the prison estate

Unable to innovate or even buy basic materials, and struggling to keep staff while operating antiquated systems, prison governors are trapped in a failing system, reports Tali Fraser

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17 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Officer uplift needed ‘now more than ever’ - Police Federation's National Chair responds to statistics as knife crime reaches record high

The 20,000 officer uplift will be vital to help drive down street offences as knife crime soars to its highest level on record, says the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW).

New report reveals England & Wales spends more on coffee than on law and order

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17 Jul 2020 Home affairs

New report reveals England & Wales spends more on coffee than on law and order

The true scale of Britain’s neglect of law and order has been revealed in a new report out today, which shows that the nation spends more on coffee each day than the Government spends on the justice system.

16 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Number 10 ‘bitterly disappointed’ as court rules schoolgirl who joined ISIS Shamima Begum can return to UK

Number 10 said it is "bitterly disappointed" by the court ruling which allows Shamima Begum, who left to join ISIS as a teenager, to return to the UK.

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16 Jul 2020 Home affairs

New report on roads policing shows urgent need for resources

Home Office must end years of underfunding

15 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Priti Patel says it was ‘absolutely right’ to wait until June to bring in coronavirus quarantine in committee clash with Yvette Cooper

Priti Patel has said it was “absolutely right” for the Government to wait until June to bring in quarantine measures for all international arrivals to the UK.

Listen: Immigration minister Kevin Foster on the post-Brexit points-based system — PoliticsHome policy podcast, supported by Leidos

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15 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Listen: Immigration minister Kevin Foster on the post-Brexit points-based system — PoliticsHome policy podcast, supported by Leidos

In a policy special of the PoliticsHome podcast supported by Leidos, we spoke to Home Office minister Kevin Foster about the UK’s big post-Brexit immigration shake-up.

Making travel safer, healthier, and more efficient

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15 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Making travel safer, healthier, and more efficient

As more travellers return to airports, how can technological solutions support a frictionless, secure and healthy travel experience?

15 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Justice Secretary urged to abandon plan to cut jury trials in bid to deal with coronavirus backlog

Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has been urged to row back on plans to temporarily cut the number of trials held in front of a jury.

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14 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Only as ‘last resort’ should police get involved

National Chair wants Government to ensure shops have obligation to make the wearing of face coverings a condition of entry.

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14 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Health Secretary heeds Compassion in Dying’s calls for first ever national DNAR guidance for patients

New national guidance for patients on Do Not Attempt Resuscitation orders, plus information for NHS staff, to be published after Kate Masters and Compassion in Dying raise grave concerns over poor and unlawful practice during pandemic

14 Jul 2020 Brexit

Business has been left in the dark over Northern Ireland’s future

Businesses will soon face new requirements that make it more complicated and costly to trade across the Irish Sea. But with just a few months to go, too many important questions remain unanswered

13 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Labour asks what ministers ‘have against care workers’ as frontline staff left off new NHS immigration route

Labour has accused the Government of “insulting” the country’s care workers as frontline staff were excluded from a major new post-Brexit immigration route for those in the health sector.

13 Jul 2020 Home affairs

UK not ‘slamming gate shut’ with new post-Brexit migration system, Boris Johnson says

Britain’s post-Brexit immigration system is not about “simply slamming the gates” shut once the UK leaves the European Union, Boris Johnson has said.

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13 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Further increases in sentencing ‘could be meaningless’ without full support of Courts

The National Chair of the Police Federation has welcomed a Government-led consultation into doubling sentences for offenders who assault emergency workers and described it is an opportunity to ensure police officers who are attacked while doing their job feel supported by the Criminal Justice System.

New appointments this week in UK politics, the civil service and public affairs

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13 Jul 2020 Home affairs

New appointments this week in UK politics, the civil service and public affairs

Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.

13 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Priti Patel to flesh out UK’s plans for ‘fairer, firmer’ post-Brexit immigration system

The Home Secretary is set to unveil further details of the UK’s post-Brexit immigration system on Monday.

12 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Labour demands ‘immediate’ publication of Priti Patel bullying probe amid ‘political interference’ claims

Labour is demanding the “immediate” publication of a report into whether Home Secretary Priti Patel bullied staff.

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10 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

National Chair slams spate of ‘seriously damaging’ anti-police reports

John Apter calls for more media support as he warns biased reporting risks impeding recruitment drive

09 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Theresa May urges bosses not to force domestic abuse victims to work from home amid coronavirus pandemic

Theresa May has urged bosses to consider whether any of their workers might suffer from domestic abuse before making them work from home amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Operationally led, digitally enabled: A fresh approach to transforming legacy border systems

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08 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Operationally led, digitally enabled: A fresh approach to transforming legacy border systems

It is possible to deliver a more advanced border through digital transformation. An operationally-led, digitally-enabled approach should be baked into tackling the scale of the border management conundrum facing the UK.

07 Jul 2020 Home affairs

‘Rough sex’ defence set to be banned after MPs back bid to change ‘chilling’ law

MPs have backed legislation that will outlaw the “chilling“ use of “rough sex” that campaigners say has allowed killers to escape punishment.

Multi-year funding settlement needed to rescue policing

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06 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Multi-year funding settlement needed to rescue policing

The Government must consider multi-year funding deals, akin to the NHS, if it is to reverse years of damaging cuts, says the Police Federation of England as Wales – echoing the chief inspector of constabulary’s calls.

05 Jul 2020 Defence

Boris Johnson reportedly set for major U-turn over Huawei role in UK 5G network

Boris Johnson is reportedly set to make a major U-turn over the use of Huawei technology in the UK's 5G network.

03 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Home Office problems left ‘vulnerable’ asylum seekers without access to doctor or schools for 86 days, watchdog finds

Hundreds of asylum seekers were left without access to a GP or schools for months after a Home Office programme to temporarily support and house them struggled to get going, the public spending watchdog has found.

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