By Nick Eardley & Oliver Slow BBC News Ministers are facing the prospect of a legal challenge if they go ahead with plans to house asylum seekers on a barge off the Dorset coast. The Home Office is reportedly looking to use the Bibby Stockholm for the migrants to reduce reliance on hotels. Portland Port […]
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The UK government has defused a rebellion from backbenchers wanting to toughen up new rules for removing migrants. A group of Tory MPs had tabled several amendments to the Illegal Migration Bill, ahead of votes in Parliament. But some withdrew their proposals, after minister Robert Jenrick said he would “engage” with Tory MPs who have
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A High Court judgment that regulations affecting more than 2.5m EU citizens living in the UK are unlawful will not be challenged by the government. The Home Office has confirmed it will not appeal against the ruling, despite previously indicating it would do so. Many EU citizens could have faced losing their right to residence
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EXCLUSIVE: The court’s ruling has sparked a backlash from human rights lawyers and professors who believe Shamima Begum should be judged in Britain Human rights lawyers have slammed the court’s decision to reject Shamima Begum’s appeal, describing the Government’s attitude toward her as “offensive” and “appalling”. The ISIS bride lost an appeal against the Home Office’s decision
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The number of asylum seekers waiting for a decision on their case in the UK has soared to record levels, with about 166,000 people in the backlog. Almost 110,000 have been waiting for six months or more, according to Home Office data published on Thursday. The new figures show about 89,000 people claimed asylum in the UK
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By Lucy Adams & Hayley Jarvis BBC Scotland News Hundreds of high-achieving pupils are struggling to access university in Scotland because the rules say they have not been in the UK long enough. Lawyers are taking the Scottish government to court over the case of one straight-A pupil who has lived in the country for
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By Lucy Williamson BBC News, in Albania and France The BBC has heard evidence that Albanian drug gangs are using the migrant camps of northern France as a recruitment ground, offering to pay the passage of those prepared to work in the UK drugs industry on arrival. Albanians account for around a third of the
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The numbers of people crossing the English Channel are now at unprecedented levels By Dominic Casciani Home and legal correspondent @BBCDomC Four years and four Secretaries of State ago, the Home Office made a pretty small technical change to how its staff should process asylum claims. Like a Whitehall case study in chaos theory, that
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By Charley Adams The government remains committed to sending asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda and plans for future flights have begun, Priti Patel has told MPs. “We will not be deterred from doing the right thing,” the home secretary said. The first flight was cancelled minutes before take-off after an intervention by the European Court
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Graduates from the world’s top universities will be able to apply to come to the UK under a new visa scheme. The government says the “high-potential individual” route will attract the “brightest and best” early in their careers. The scheme will be available to alumni of the top non-UK universities who have graduated in the
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