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This blog is now closed, you can read more of our UK political coverage hereMark Sedwill, the former cabinet secretary and former national security adviser, goes next. He is now a peer, and a member of the committee.He says the deputy national security…
The department is once again the subject of debate about whether it is beyond repair after immigration and prison problems“It’s not that the Home Office is too big. It’s that the brains of many of the people who run it are not big enough,” says one for…
Home secretary vows overhaul after previously secret 2023 review lists series of perceived shortcomingsShabana Mahmood has admitted the Home Office is “not yet fit for purpose” after the release of a damning report that was kept secret for years.The re…
Jim Gamble, a former police chief and frontrunner for the role, withdraws amid growing discontent among survivorsUK politics live – latest updatesA frontrunner to chair the national grooming gangs inquiry has withdrawn amid growing discontent from surv…
Labour chair says that Tory proposals to revoke indefinite leave to remain in some cases will ‘tear families apart’Yesterday Steve Back, the photographer who covers Downing Street and who specialises in close up pictures of documents being carried into…
Prime minister also announces £10m funding to provide security for Jewish amenities, including synagogues and schoolsUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has ordered a review of antisemitism in the NHS, saying “clear cases” are not being dealt…
Home secretary to tell meeting of interior ministers that international cooperation is way to curb irregular migrationThe failure to bring order to European borders is eroding trust in politicians and the concept of nation states, Shabana Mahmood will …
Senior media figures say hiding names of those facing trial would ‘ride roughshod over the principles of open justice’A government plan to give anonymity to firearms officers in England and Wales facing criminal charges will damage public confidence in…
Counter-terror laws must not place unnecessary limits on ‘fundamental rights’, Michael O’Flaherty tells Shabana MahmoodEurope’s most senior human rights official has called on Shabana Mahmood to review UK protest laws after mass arrests over the ban on…
PM says Labour will address suggestions of antisemitic hate as he orders review of protest policing powersKeir Starmer will order the home secretary to look at further curbs on protests including potential powers to take action against specific inflamm…