The Latest Breaking News from Home Office

How to get a new passport as quickly as possible as Brits still face 10-week waits

The Home Office is warning that Brits should still leave ten weeks for a new passport to arrive, potentially causing issues for trips abroad during the summer holidays

Daily Mirror · Feb 20, 2023

Black people seven times more likely to die after police restraint, report shows

This disproves a previous Home Office claim that Black men are not more likely to die in custody cases where use of force or restraint is present.

The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023

Violence against women to be treated with same seriousness as terrorism under new domestic abuse register law

Violence against women will be treated with the same seriousness as terrorism under plans for a domestic abusers register, announced on Monday.

Evening Standard · Feb 20, 2023

Beverley Knight calls Suella Braverman a ‘risible character’ after ‘disgusting’ Windrush reform reversal

Singer and actor expressed her disgust at recent governemental decisions about Windrush reform

The Independent UK · Feb 19, 2023

'Thirteen years of Tory rule have seen round after round of cuts to the police'

Police forces saw a 30% cut in staffing numbers from 2010 to 2022, according to Home Office figures analysed by Labour. The data showed there were 6,252 fewer frontline officers last year compared with 2010

Daily Mirror · Feb 18, 2023

'I woke up in A&E after an exclusive party - my life has never been the same since'

Antonina Kosior says spiking needs to be made a specific criminal offence

Manchester Evening News · Feb 18, 2023

Knife crime is growing faster in TORY controlled areas, figures reveal

New analysis shows eight of the ten police forces with the highest increases in knife crime are in areas with Conservative Party Police and Crime Commissioners

Daily Mirror · Feb 18, 2023

Revealed: UK’s missing child refugees put to work for Manchester gangs

Police focus search for asylum seekers abducted from hotels run by the Home Office on an organised crime area dubbed ‘counterfeit alley’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2023

Government apologises to student after sex attacker deported early

Baftjar Bilalaj, 25, attacked the young woman in a park as she returned to her college after a night out in October 2021.

The Independent UK · Feb 17, 2023

'Vile' former school governor wrote 'nonce' on his chest

Christopher Smith pleaded guilty to 15 offences involving sexual activity with a child, taking, making, distributing and possessing indecent images

Liverpool Echo · Feb 17, 2023