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Cost-effectiveness of Home Office scheme to house people on vessel questioned after downsizing of plansUK politics live – latest updatesQuestions have emerged over the cost-effectiveness of the Bibby Stockholm barge after the Home Office reduced the nu…
Leaked documents spark furious backlash from groups who fear freedom of expression could be suppressedGovernment officials have drawn up deeply controversial proposals to broaden the definition of extremism to include anyone who “undermines” the countr…
Local authorities argue that Home Office would act unlawfully by moving refugees to RAF Scampton and RAF WethersfieldCouncil bosses have called on the high court to quash government plans to use the land of two former RAF bases to house asylum seekers….
Brokers in south Asia charging up to £800 for appointments that should be freeUK visa appointments are being booked up by brokers and sold on for hundreds of pounds in an illicit trade targeting overseas workers and students.An Observer investigation h…
Charity Care4Calais says Wethersfield airbase in Essex is a ‘de facto prison camp’ for about 200 peopleThe Home Office has been accused of unlawfully segregating asylum seekers from the local population based on their nationality by “falsely imprisonin…
Brownfield site in Bexhill, East Sussex, being considered as a potential detention centre to house asylum seekersThe government paid £15.3m for a derelict piece of land last month that was sold just over a year ago for £6.3m, it has emerged.The brownfi…
Combined profits of Clearsprings Ready Homes and Stay Belvedere Hotels prompt criticism from refugee charitiesTwo private companies supplying asylum seeker accommodation to the Home Office have made a record combined profit of £113m according to their …
Exclusive: findings show uncontrolled and potentially discriminatory way technology used in Whitehall and some police forcesUK risks scandal over ‘bias’ in AI tools in use across public sectorGovernment officials are using artificial intelligence (AI) …
Calls grow to tighten legislation but Met says it believes no offence was committed on London marchUK politics live – latest updatesDowning Street has argued that police already have “extensive powers” to take action against demonstrators who chanted a…
Just Stop Oil protesters block causeway and briefly halt coach carrying men to vessel in Portland portUK politics live – latest updatesThere were chaotic scenes as the UK government forced asylum seekers to return to the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset…