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Yvette Cooper orders Foreign Office to review ‘serious failures’ in Alaa Abd el-Fattah case

The activist, recently released from years of Egyptian detention, had appeared to call for violence against Zionists and police in online comments

The Independent UK

Who is Alaa Abd El-Fattah? The British-Egyptian activist facing calls to be stripped of citizenship

The freed Egyptian dissident is at the centre of a row over past social media posts

Evening Standard

What did Alaa Abd el-Fattah say in past social media posts and why is there a backlash?

British-Egyptian activist has apologised over tweets appearing to condone violence against Zionists and police

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Conservatives cannot be trusted on citizenship – Reform UK

A Reform UK spokesman said the Tories cannot be trusted amid the ongoing row over Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s citizenship.

Evening Standard

Reform UK claims Conservatives ‘cannot be trusted’ amid row over activist’s citizenship

A Reform UK spokesman hit out at the Conservatives following their decision to grant Alaa Abd El-Fattah UK citizenship back in 2021

The Independent UK

Tories repeat calls to strip activist of UK citizenship amid ‘insincere’ apology

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said that if he were in government, he would be ‘making sure’ Alaa Abd El-Fattah was deported.

Evening Standard

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp Slams Home Office for Giving Migrants 'Red-Carpet Treatment'

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp slammed the Home Office for offering healthcare to deported migrants after a GP job post at a detention centre.

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Former children’s commissioner vows to ‘follow evidence’ in grooming gangs probe

Baroness Anne Longfield will lead the inquiry over three years with a budget of £65 million, the Home Secretary announced on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Tory shadow minister praises Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown – and says it could work in UK

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp says the British public expects immigration laws to be properly enforced

The Independent UK

Grooming gangs inquiry ‘must consider ethnicity and religion’, Badenoch says

Tory leader also wants time-limit for inquiry, as Labour criticised over delays and rows about investigation’s scope

The Guardian - UK

Grooming gangs inquiry must ‘leave no stone unturned’, Kemi Badenoch says

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp meanwhile urged the Government to adopt inquiry rules which would examine the ethnicity of perpetrators.

Evening Standard

Eastern Europeans going home is driving exodus of UK citizens

Poland and Romania recorded the highest increase in Britons arriving in the past four years, new data shows

Evening Standard

Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer

Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.

Evening Standard

Asylum claims at new record high but backlog down by more than a third

A total of 110,051 people applied for asylum in the year to September 2025.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

UK government poised to overhaul its asylum system as a political storm brews over migration

The British government plans to tighten its asylum system, following Denmark's model, to reduce immigration and address the political storm over migrants crossing the English Channel

The Independent UK

Home secretary condemns ‘mortifying’ Labour leadership row as Rayner allies forced to deny new plot

Labour party ‘fighting like rats in a sack’ as turmoil at top of government overshadows Shabana Mahmood’s immigration crackdown

The Independent UK

Sending licence fee money to Mar-a-Lago not ‘smart’, shadow minister suggests after Trump threatened to sue BBC

Chris Philp said we should expect ‘higher standard’ from the broadcaster

Evening Standard

Home Secretary says consent for UK asylum system at risk unless illegal migration tackled

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is due to set out reforms to the asylum system on Monday.

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The Independent UK

Consent for asylum system ‘could fall apart if illegal migration not tackled’

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is due to set out reforms to the asylum system on Monday.

The Independent UK

Mahmood to scrap ‘failed experiment’ of police and crime commissioners

The elected officials are in charge of setting police budgets and appointing the chief constable for their area

Evening Standard

Shadow minister spoke ‘imprecisely’ about Tory settled status plans – Badenoch

Katie Lam appeared to indicate that some people already granted indefinite leave to remain in Britain could have their residency taken away.

Evening Standard

Tories deny they have thrown out plans to toughen up indefinite leave to remain

Plans to retrospectively remove the settled status are no longer Tory policy, a spokesman suggested on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

Tories to demand release of documents in collapsed China spying case

Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry deny wrongdoing.

Evening Standard

'Human error' by a prison officer led to Epping sex offender Hadush Kebatu being wrongly freed, says Lammy

The Ethiopian asylum seeker was recaptured on Sunday after being mistakenly released from HMP Chelmsford on Friday

Evening Standard

Racism of 70s and 80s back on the streets of London, warns Cabinet minister Wes Streeting

The Ilford North Labour MP stressed he had thought that such abuse had been confined to the ‘history books’

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