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West Lindsey council launches legal action, saying decision to use RAF Scampton for up to 2,000 asylum seekers is ‘irrational’West Lindsey district council has launched legal action against the Home Office to challenge the decision to use a local Royal…
GCSE pupils struggling to complete education and NHS appointments lost after move to Wetherby in YorkshireAfghan refugee families who were told by the Home Office to uproot their lives in London and relocate 200 miles away say their children’s educatio…
Questionnaire system at heart of effort to reduce backlog is ‘fundamentally flawed’, say immigration lawyersImmigration lawyers have accused the Home Office of building delays into a scheme meant to speed up decisions on 12,000 asylum claims.The plans …
Despite MoD assurances, applicant and former British Council worker still being asked for Taliban-stamped papersAn Afghan who worked with the British Council and is applying to come to the UK has been told to retrieve documents from the Taliban or risk…
Watchdog finds Home Office reliance on private contracts to house refugees, often in hotels, forced Foreign Office to slice its budgetA third of the UK’s overseas aid budget was spent by the Home Office on housing refugees in a poorly managed programme…
Exclusive: Ministers facing growing anger from Tory backbenchers over use of hotels in their constituenciesThe Home Office is planning to use disused cruise ships to house asylum seekers amid growing anger from Conservative backbenchers over the use of…
Ministers announce refugees in hotels will be offered move to a home on condition they accept first offerPolitics live – latest updatesPeople who fled the Taliban in Afghanistan are at risk of homelessness in the UK, humanitarian groups have warned, af…
Amendments could remove safeguards as Home Office minister says government is ‘in listening mode’Ministers appear set to at least partly give way to Conservative rebels over removing safeguards from the illegal migration bill after a Home Office minist…
Video footage shows Matt Hancock and Kwasi Kwarteng discussing pay rates after being duped by campaignersThe former chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, and former health secretary, Matt Hancock, agreed to work for £10,000 a day to further the interests of a fa…
Plans to use holiday camps and student halls to relocate people from hotels now thought unlikely go aheadAsylum seekers could be moved out of hotels and into military bases or disused ferries under government plans that could be announced next week, ac…