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Robert Jenrick Bizarrely Takes Credit After Net Migration Falls Under Labour
6+ hour, 57+ min ago (316+ words) The ex-Tory minister oversaw a peak in net migration back in 2023. Robert Jenrick has somehow tried to take credit for the recent decline in net migration despite not being in government for three years. The MP for Newark used to…...
Keir Starmer Swings The Axe In Major Cabinet Reshuffle After Rayner Resignation
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (519+ words) Keir Starmer carried out a brutal cabinet reshuffle as he tries to reassert his authority following the resignation of Angela Rayner. The deputy prime minister quit the government after Starmer's standards watchdog found she had broken the ministerial code by…...
Fact-Check: Here's A Look At The Reality Asylum Seekers Actually Face In The UK
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (942+ words) The long-running debate around the asylum seekers arriving on British shores via the English Channel escalated again over the summer. It began when anti-asylum protesters began to oppose the government's use of the Bell Hotel in Epping to house those…...
Labour Braces For A Tense Weekend As Anti-Immigration Protesters Plan To Demonstrate Outside Asylum Hotels
9+ mon, 2+ day ago (309+ words) Up to 30 protests are expected to take place across the country over the weekend outside hotels thought to be housing asylum seekers. It comes after the High Court ruled migrants must be removed from a hotel in Epping this week…...
LBC Presenter Fact Checks Nigel Farage's Claim Small Boats Have Made UK More Dangerous For Women And Girls
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (344+ words) A presenter on LBC delivered a brutal fact check following claims by senior Reform UK politicians that the small boats crisis means the UK is no longer a "safe haven" for women and girls. Andrea Jenkyns, the party's mayor of…...
Why Ministers Could Be Placed In An Impossible Legal Situation By Asylum Hotel Ruling
9+ mon, 4+ day ago (430+ words) Rachel Reeves was very clear when she set out the government's plan to end the use of asylum hotels by the next election. "[The Conservatives] left behind a broken system," she told MPs in June. "Billions of pounds of taxpayers…...
Zia Yusuf Says Reform Would Deport All Illegal Immigrants " But Nigel Farage Has Said That's 'Impossible"
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (216+ words) Reform UK's former chairman has said the party would deport all illegal immigrants, despite Nigel Farage previously saying it was "impossible. Zia Yusuf made the pledge in his first broadcast interview since returning to a senior role in the party....
Labour To Scrap Asylum Seeker Hotels By 2029, Rachel Reeves Announces
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (226+ words) Asylum seekers in the UK will not be put up in hotels after the next general election, Rachel Reeves has announced. The chancellor said the move would save taxpayers "1 billion a year and was "the choice of the British people....
What Is Expected To Be In Starmer And Macron's 'One-In, One-Out' Migrant Deal?
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (728+ words) Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer have put on an exceptionally chummy display during the French president's state visit this week. As the first such trip from the leader of an EU member state since the 2016 Brexit referendum, Downing Street was…...
How Starmer's Migrant Deal With France Was Originally The Brainchild Of, Er, Robert Jenrick
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (234+ words) Keir Starmer yesterday hailed the "groundbreaking" migrant returns deal he has struck with French president Emmanuel Macron. The agreement will see France initially accept a small number of asylum seekers who have made their way to the UK in small…...