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Exclusive: Brook House staff physically prevented asylum seekers awaiting deportation from taking own livesAsylum seekers awaiting deportation at a detention centre were physically prevented from taking their own lives or self-harming on 18 occasions l…
In government’s plan to close loophole people who sell blades would face up to two years in jail Machetes and zombie knives could be banned in England and Wales, with people selling them facing up to two years in jail, under government plans to close a…
Exclusive: Post-Windrush training module urges caseworkers to call asylum seekers ‘customers’ Details have emerged of a training course designed to make Home Office staff behave more compassionately, revealing guidance urging immigration caseworkers to…
Welfare groups claim information could be used by Home Office to deport asylum seekersPolice have been collecting the sensitive data of unaccompanied child asylum seekers and sharing it with immigration enforcement, sparking fears it could be used agai…
Sources say Home Office apologised to Essex force over seizure of racist dolls but government denies claimThe row over Suella Braverman’s “rebuke” to Essex police for seizing racist golly dolls from a pub intensified yesterday after sources indicated t…
Home Office curtailed Saiful Islam’s visa in 2010 after wrongly linking him to criminal convictionsA chef from Bangladesh who was wrongly recorded as a sex offender by the Home Office has won the right to remain in the UK after fighting since 2010.Saif…
Experience in eastern Mediterranean proves deterrence and harsh conditions do little to discourage refugees Prominent Conservatives openly view Greece’s self-described “strict but fair” migration policies as a model to emulate. The former home secretar…
Exclusive: UK Government concedes it cannot substantiate assertion that majority crossing Channel are economic migrantsThe Home Office has admitted it has no evidence to back up one of the key justifications for its crackdown on small boat crossings.As…
Privately-run £50m scheme backed by former home secretary was mooted after 2021 murder of Sarah EverardPlans for a privately run emergency phone line for women walking alone, promised after the murder of Sarah Everard, have been shelved.The proposal by…
But Richard Holden also says efforts will be made to avoid people needing to leave port to access local servicesPolitics live – latest updatesA barge due to be used to house hundreds of asylum seekers in Dorset is not a prison but efforts will be made …