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24 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Priti Patel Insists New Asylum Seeker Plans Do Not Break International Law

Priti Patel has defended new immigration rules which make harder for people to claim asylum if they arrive in the UK illegally, following criticism from charities working with asylum seekers.

18 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Gibraltar And Isle Of Man Reject “Inhumane And Ridiculous” Plans To Host UK Asylum Processing Centres

Both Gibraltar and the Isle of Man have roundly rejected reports they will host proposed new asylum processing centres as part of a shake-up of UK immigration policy.

12 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Priti Patel Insists “Government Is Listening” As She Reopens Consultation On Violence Against Women

The government has announced it is reopening a Call for Evidence on violence against women after thousands shared their experiences of harassment in the wake of Sarah Everard’s death.

11 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Harry and Meghan’s British citizenship should not be up for debate

The government is slyly misusing their powers to remove citizenship and using the veil of populism to justify this abuse. It is time to curtail these powers, no matter who they are applied to.

08 Mar 2021 Coronavirus

Home Office Housed Asylum Seekers In “Filthy, Impoverished And Unsafe” Barracks During Pandemic

A highly critical report into the use of “filthy” army barracks to house asylum seekers during the Covid-19 pandemic is “damning criticism of the leadership and culture of the Home Office”, according to Yvette Cooper.

08 Feb 2021 Home affairs

Home Office Admits 112,000 People Have Had Part Of Their Police Records Deleted

The Home Office has said today files relating to 112,000 people have been deleted from the police computer system and 15,000 of those cases involve people who have had their data wiped in its entirety.

05 Feb 2021 Home affairs

Councils Fear Missing Police Files Could Harm Major Abuse Investigations

The Home Secretary has been warned that missing police records risk jeopardising vital work on child sexual abuse cases, modern slavery and counter terrorism undertaken by local authority officers.

20 Jan 2021 Home affairs

Boris Johnson Says He Doesn’t Know How Many Investigations Were Compromised By Wiped Police Records

The prime minister has admitted to MPs that the government doesn’t know how many ongoing investigations have been affected by an IT error that saw as many as 403,000 records wiped from a police database.

18 Dec 2020 Coronavirus

UK government’s hostile environment for migrants has been in full-force during the Covid pandemic

Migrants are disproportionately impacted by Covid, yet receive the least amount of help from the Tory government. On International Migrants Day we should reaffirm our commitment to treat migrants fairly and keep them safe.

11 Nov 2020 Coronavirus

A Man Who Says He Was Unlawfully Detained By Immigration Officers Fears He May Have Caught Covid From One Of Them

Legal representatives for a man who says he was unlawfully detained by immigration enforcement officers fear he is at risk of contracting coronavirus after one of the arresting officers tested positive.

24 Oct 2020 Coronavirus

‘I Look After People But No One Will Look After Me’ - Why The UK's Migrant Key Workers Are Facing Extreme Poverty And Abuse In The Pandemic

Approximately 1.4 million migrants in the UK have no access to state funds – including hundreds of thousands of key workers in the healthcare and hospitality sectors. As Covid-19 pushes more people into destitution, Georgina Bailey reports on how they've been impacted by the government's policies.

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05 Oct 2020 Home affairs

Bar Council reaction to Home Secretary's asylum speech

Responding to the Home Secretary’s speech Fixing our broken asylum system which was delivered at the Conservative Party conference at the weekend, Amanda Pinto QC, Chair of the Bar Council, said:

01 Oct 2020 Home affairs

Here Are All The Outlandish Ideas The Government Is Reported To Be Considering To Tackle Migrant Channel Crossings

As the entire country faces a battle to contain spiking coronavirus cases, Home Secretary Priti Patel appears to be embroiled in a struggle with her own department.

17 Sep 2020 Defence

Home Office Plans To Use Military-Grade Drones To Pursue Suspects And Monitor Protests Are Raising Privacy Concerns

Plans by the National Police Air Service (NPAS) to use Israeli military-grade drones to replace helicopters and aeroplanes have raised concerns among privacy campaigners.

28 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Home Office ditches controversial video claiming ‘activist lawyers’ are protecting asylum seekers after backlash

The Home Office’s top civil servant has ordered the removal of a controversial video dismissing people providing legal representation for asylum seekers as “activist lawyers”.

27 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Home Office under fire for ‘point-scoring’ swipe at ‘activist’ immigration lawyers

The Home Office has been accused of “political point-scoring” over a video claiming that “activist lawyers” are disrupting the return of asylum seekers.

24 Aug 2020 Coronavirus

Government’s own immigration charge hitting NHS trusts with £15m in fees to use overseas staff

The NHS has been forced to pay out more than £15 million in immigration fees to the Government since 2017 so that the health service has enough specialist staff.

09 Aug 2020 Foreign affairs

Priti Patel calls for military help to stop migrants crossing English Channel

Priti Patel has called on the Royal Navy to help reduce the number of migrant boats crossing the English Channel.

05 Aug 2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Failure to toughen border measures made pandemic 'much worse' for UK, MPs say

A series of "critical errors" in the Government's approach to travellers entering the UK made the coronavirus pandemic much worse, a cross-party group of MPs has said.

04 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Home Office to end use of 'racist algorithm' for UK visa decisions in face of legal challenge by migrants' rights group

The Home Office is set to scrap the use of a controversial algorithm for sorting UK visa applications in the face of a legal challenge by migrants' rights campaigners.

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.

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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01 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Detail of EHRC review of ‘hostile environment’ policies published

The terms of reference have been published for a statutory assessment by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) of how the Home Office complied with equality law when developing, implementing and monitoring ‘hostile environment’ immigration measures.

28 Jun 2020 Political parties

Sir Mark Sedwill quits as Cabinet Secretary as Boris Johnson eyes major Whitehall shake-up

Sir Mark Sedwill is to step down as Britain’s top civil servant and national security chief in September, it has been confirmed, as Boris Johnson plans a major shake-up of Whitehall.