The Latest Breaking News from Home Office

Priti Patel's plan to use RAF base to create 'migrant camp' blasted by angry locals

Home ­Secretary Priti Patel intends to use a mothballed RAF base in rural North Yorkshire to create the UK’s biggest-ever camp for people seeking sanctuary. The plans have been branded 'Guantanamo-on-Ouse'

Daily Mirror · May 5, 2022

If Johnson’s Rwanda plan for asylum seekers is legal, why is he afraid to defend it in court?

Refugees – and civil servants who’ll have to effect this cruel policy – will both suffer, says Mark Serwotka of the Public and Commercial Services Union

The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2022

Union chief accuses Patel of withholding Rwanda asylum details from staff

Mark Serwotka claims failure to disclose key documents raises suspicions plan is ‘built on sand’

The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2022

Residents in ‘millionaires' village fury over plan to house asylum seekers at plush Scots hotel

Ninety asylum seekers will arrive within days to check in at the award-winning Bothwell Bridge Hotel in South Lanarkshire.

Daily Record · May 5, 2022

When do I need to renew my passport for travel to Europe?

Seeing headlines about passports expiring after Brexit? Here are the rules as stated by the European Union, not the UK government nor the airlines

The Independent UK · May 5, 2022

Home Office boss found guilty of poisoning mistress' juice in bid to cause miscarriage

Darren Burke earlier encouraged the mother of two to terminate the pregnancy and sent her links to an abortion clinic after she fell pregnant during the course of their five-year affair

Daily Mirror · May 4, 2022

Darren Burke convicted of lacing secret lover’s orange juice to induce abortion

Senior civil servant at Home Office was living a double life and was desperate to abort his unborn child amid five year affair

Evening Standard · May 4, 2022

‘An absolute scandal’: The Syrian teenager who died waiting to be resettled in Britain

Firas, 13, who had cerebral palsy, died in February, four years after he and his family were promised a place in the UK under a resettlement programme, reports Bel Trew

The Independent UK · May 4, 2022

Scottish host families condemn 'difficult, obstructionist and slow' Home Office

SCOTTISH host families have condemned the UK Government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme, calling the Home Office “difficult, obstructionist and…

The National (Scotland) · May 4, 2022

UK Government 'sorry' for sending New Scot to Ukraine despite looming invasion

THE UK Government has issued a formal apology after it sent a New Scot to Ukraine to apply for a visa despite knowing of the looming Russian…

The National (Scotland) · May 4, 2022