The Latest Breaking News from Home Office

Illegal worker crackdown: Care providers fined almost £600,000 in just three months after Home Office raids

Care companies were fined between £10,000 to £210,000 for hiring illegal workers

Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2025

Home secretary suspends refugee family reunion applications until new, tighter rules are put in place – as it happened

Yvette Cooper says rules were designed years ago to help families separated by war but are being used in a different way now

The Guardian - UK · Sep 1, 2025

Home Office bans asylum seekers living off £10 a week from buying armoured cars

Aid workers say the ban on luxury goods shows how ‘out of touch’ politicians are with the realities of asylum seekers in the UK

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2025

Ministers brace for fresh protests and legal battles after asylum hotel ruling

Labour’s former lord chancellor, Lord Falconer, said people expected action.

Evening Standard · Aug 30, 2025

Reform UK councillor suspended from job at Home Office processing asylum claims

It is understood an investigation will look at whether Paul Bean of Durham council breached civil service code

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2025

Ministers faced with fresh protests and legal battles after asylum hotel ruling

Three appeal judges described the previous judgment as ‘seriously flawed in principle’ and said the hotel could continue to be used to house migrants.

Evening Standard · Aug 29, 2025

Starmer warned he must shut migrant hotels or face losing Labour voters to Reform

Labour grandee Lord Falconer tells PM to take action over migrant crisis after government won Court of Appeal challenge over Epping hotel

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2025

The key events that led to the Epping asylum seeker injunction being overturned

A temporary injunction that was set to block asylum seekers from being housed at a hotel in Epping, Essex was overturned at the Court of Appeal.

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2025

Ministers face backlash after Epping asylum hotel injunction overturned

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said that Sir Keir Starmer ‘puts the rights of illegal immigrants above the rights of British people’.

Evening Standard · Aug 29, 2025

Balloon-craft and hairdresser jobs advertised for immigration centre

The job descriptions for floristry, hairdressing and painting tutors, have been posted online

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2025