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Minister says UK deportation flight removes seven despite 112 expected onboard

The Government blamed immigration law firms and MPs for the low number on the Wednesday morning flight to Jamaica.

The Independent UK

Jamaican deportation flight takes off with just seven people aboard

The charter flight, which was initially due to carry 112 people, is understood to have taken off in the early hours of Wednesday morning

The Independent UK

UK deportation flight to Jamaica takes off with seven onboard

Home Office initially had 100 people on list of Jamaican nationals to be removed, say reports

The Guardian - UK

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Leeds gran, 60, 'livid' she's forced to take 'sky high stairs' at Leeds Bradford Airport as escalator 'switched off'

She had just landed back in the UK and was faced with huge wait times and a massive climb at Leeds Bradford

Leeds Live

Legal battle over ‘unlawful detention’ of Jamaican ex-banker

Exclusive: Two legal firms involved in James Matthews’ case have accused the Home Office of unlawful practice, while it has emerged that the department may owe him money

The Independent UK

Passport chaos: Couriers found to have lost hundreds as anxious holidaymakers chase applications

Although passport applications dropped last year, 1,196 documents were recorded as ‘lost during delivery by courier’

The Independent UK

Home Office doubles time lone child refugees must wait to join family in UK as resources diverted to Ukraine

Exclusive: In one case, a 14-year-old Afghan boy alone in a refugee camp in Europe must wait up to four months to join his brother in the UK

The Independent UK

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Where will Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stay during Queen’s Platinum Jubilee?

Sussexes will attend Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations with their two children in June

The Independent UK

Leeds Bradford Airport warns passengers not to arrive too early as it gives updated delay figures after 'chaos'

The airport has been quoted as saying that nearly 400 passengers have missed flights in the last three months

Leeds Live

Prevent programme ‘too focused on right-wing extremism’

The independent review accused the Government’s anti-radicalisation programme of ‘ignoring Islamist narratives’.

The Independent UK

Priti Patel to allow volunteer police officers to carry Tasers

Special constables will have to undergo same training as regular officers to be issued with weapons

The Independent UK

Volunteer police officers to be given Taser powers to boost defence

Priti Patel is expected to call for ‘higher standards’ in the police, arguing that the public are in ‘urgent need of reassurance’.

The Independent UK

Leaked Prevent review attacks ‘double standards’ on far right and Islamists

Exclusive: draft of Shawcross report calling for crackdown on Islamist extremism raises concerns it will try to ‘politicise counter-terrorism’

The Guardian - UK

Two in five police recruits are female

The gender balance of new hires varies by police force.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Private papers show extent of row between Patel and police leaders

Home Office plans have been described as a power grab by chief constables and crime commissioners

The Guardian - UK

Home Office must stop cruel deportations

Letters: We need a sympathetic immigration system, writes Diana Good, while Leatrice Bailey notes that the Home Office has the capacity to act quickly when it is at risk of being held to account

Liverpool Echo

Hundreds of passports lost by government courier as major backlog continues

The government issued more than a million fewer passports in 2020 and 2021, but lost passports skyrocketed

Evening Standard

Rachel Maclean’s foolish comments have exposed this government’s biggest weakness

Rachel Maclean will be wincing for weeks. The Home Office minister’s broadcast round this morning was the stuff of nightmares – for speaker and listeners alike. But the ensuing row caught light because of the failure of her political bosses.

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Evening Standard

What is Section 60 as Priti Patel lifts stop and search restrictions?

Home secretary Priti Patel has permanently lifted restrictions on stop and search powers.

Daily Mirror

8 times Tories criticised for being 'out of touch' over cost of living crisis

Home Office Minister Rachel Maclean sparked a fresh row over cost of living as she said some Brits could get higher paid jobs or work longer hours to "protect" themselves from long term cost of living pressures

Daily Mirror

Tory minister admits 'I need another coffee' after stats struggle in awkward interview

Rachel Maclean was grilled over changes to stop-and-search powers by her boss Priti Patel - and gave the wrong figures before saying she didn't have them in front of her

The Independent UK

Police fear ‘draconian’ new protest laws could increase danger to officers and damage public confidence

New bill would enable the suspicionless stop and search of peaceful protesters and make ‘locking on’ a crime

Manchester Evening News

Families risk missing holidays abroad due to hundreds of passports getting lost

Recruitment issues, massive backlogs and lost passports are causing chaos for families hoping to get away this summer

The Independent UK

Priti Patel set to give herself more powers to ‘intervene’ in policing

Proposed changes to protocol governing home secretary’s powers would ‘lower threshold’ for intervention

Evening Standard

‘Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan won’t stop us crossing’ — inside the migrant crisis escalating in the Channel

Critics deem it expensive and counter-productive — but is the Government’s new scheme even workable? Katie Strick reports

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