The Latest Breaking News from Home Office

Gary Lineker criticises Home Office over treatment of 26-year old refugee he hosted

Lineker too in a 26-year old man who had been caught up in a military coup

Wales Online · Oct 14, 2022

Gary Lineker criticises Home Office treatment of refugee he hosted

It comes after Lineker was found to have breached the BBC’s impartiality rules over a tweet he posted in February.

The Independent UK · Oct 13, 2022

Home Office threatens to send heavily pregnant rape survivor to Rwanda

Eritrean woman, 28, in acute distress having spent most of her life in search of safety

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2022

Ukraine’s forgotten refugees: They fled Putin’s war too – but Britain won’t help because of their nationality

Refugees Welcome: Non-Ukrainian nationals who escaped the same invasion have been cut out of the schemes offering sanctuary. Now they find themselves alone with nowhere to turn, reports May Bulman

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2022

Urgent warning as 29 people die in candle and heater fires

Experts say people are being forced to make dangerous choices because of the rising cost of energy

Wales Online · Oct 12, 2022

Refugee wrongly labelled child murderer says decades of his life wasted

Mayooran Thangaratnam fled Sri Lanka for the UK in 2003 after brutal murder of his father but was repeatedly refused asylum

The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2022

Government must ‘protect their people’ as transphobic hate crimes rise

Transgender hate crimes have increased by 56% over 12 months according to the Home Office

Liverpool Echo · Oct 11, 2022

Suella Braverman wants to upgrade cannabis to a Class A drug - but other nations are legalising it

The Home Secretary is at odds with U.S. President Joe Biden - who has just issued pardons to anyone convicted of possessing a small amount of cannabis

Wales Online · Oct 10, 2022

Home Secretary 'receptive' to calls to make cannabis Class A drug

Upgrading cannabis from Class B to Class A would increase the maximum penalty from 14 years in jail to a life sentence for supply and production

Wales Online · Oct 10, 2022

Home Secretary open to upgrading cannabis from Class B to Class A

Reclassifying cannabis from Class B to Class A would boost the maximum penalty from 14 years to a life sentence for supply and production

Liverpool Echo · Oct 9, 2022