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Musk tried to ‘undermine’ general election and ‘depose’ Starmer, MPs told

Labour MP Johanna Baxter also accused Elon Musk of putting the safety of Home Office minister Jess Phillips ‘at risk’ through his platform X.

Evening Standard

Number of asylum hotels will be down by end of March, says minister

Dame Angela Eagle said nine hotels are scheduled to close in March as part of the the Government’s commitment to reducing hotel use.

Evening Standard

GPS tagging of asylum seekers is ineffective, government report finds

Home Office pilot in 2022 and 2023 didn’t stop asylum seekers absconding from immigration bail

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Migrants cross English Channel in third day of arrivals to UK this year

Pictures show men and women wearing blankets and life jackets being brought ashore in Dover

Evening Standard

UK officials urged to act ‘months ago’ on child sexual abuse inquiry’s demands

Campaigners claim no progress made with government on implementing recommendations until Elon Musk row

The Guardian - UK

UK officials 'monitoring' Elon Musk's social media as 'possible security risk'

Entrepreneur’s social media posts are being tracked by Government officials, according to reports

Evening Standard

Head of security at Essex centre for disabled asylum seekers removed over alleged far-right views

YouTube channel apparently belonging to official at Clacton accommodation suggests support for EDL and Tommy Robinson

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UK sees huge drop in visa applications after restrictions introduced

The huge drop has been driven by a fall in the number of overseas students and foreign care workers

The Independent UK

Work and study visa applications drop 42% since restrictions introduced

Provisional Home Office figures show 547,000 applications were received between April and December 2024, down from 942,500 in the same period in 2023.

Evening Standard

Starmer hits out at Tories over Badenoch’s call for new grooming gang inquiry

Elon Musk claimed Sir Keir Starmer was ‘hiding terrible things’ by refusing to back a national probe.

Evening Standard

Top minister tells Tories ‘put up or shut up’ ahead of grooming gang vote

The education secretary warned that supporting symbolic Tory calls for a grooming gangs inquiry will kill a children’s safety bill ‘stone dead’

The Independent UK

Tory push for grooming inquiry vote ‘a shocking tactic’, Starmer warns

The PM warned supporting the Tory’s calls for symbolic vote on an inquiry will ‘kill’ his Government’s plans to bolster safeguards for children.

Evening Standard

Tories to seek support for new child grooming inquiry in Commons vote

Home Office minister Jess Phillips has meanwhile said she faced increased risk to her safety since Elon Musk called her a ‘rape genocide apologist’

Evening Standard

Musk ‘knows absolutely nothing’ about grooming gangs, Jess Phillips says

The minister suggested her life had been turned upside down after Mr Musk used his X platform to accuse her of being a ‘rape genocide apologist’.

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London people traffickers jailed after attempting to smuggle Indian migrants into UK

Shafaz Khan, from Feltham, and Choudhry Rashied, from Southall, hid four people behind a stack of dirty tyres in the back of a hire van

Evening Standard

Fact check: Home Office memo advised police how to deal with vulnerable children

The Home Office circular did not contain the quote, or sentiments, that online users have attributed to it.

The Independent UK

UK’s new ETA travel permit scheme begins for non-Europeans – here’s what you need to know

The digital permit scheme to enter the UK will extend to all travellers from 2 April

Evening Standard

Non-Europeans visiting UK without visa will need digital permits from Wednesday

The Home Office is extending the electronic travel authorisation (ETA) system, which was first introduced in November 2023.

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Time for 'less talk and more action' on grooming gangs, say victims minister and child abuse inquiry chair

Senior Conservative MPs have called for a national inquiry into the sexual abuse of young girls in towns across Britain

The Guardian - UK

This is how the grooming scandal is being weaponised – and this is what Starmer must do

There is a nagging sense that justice still has not been done. At a Reform rally, I watched Nigel Farage exploit that, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Why is Elon Musk attacking Keir Starmer over the grooming scandal?

Owner of social media platform X has shared a series of posts about the British PM and other senior politicians

The Guardian - UK

Curb extremism now or face new terrorist threats, Labour warned

Experts say measures announced so far are not enough to turn the tide

Evening Standard

Home Office accused of spending £10,000 on lavish dinner at Searcys in The Gherkin

Civil servants reportedly received special permission to use the government’s Procurement Card to host the lavish gala for their Italian counterparts in November

The Guardian - UK

UK rollout of eVisas could leave non-EU migrants ‘vulnerable’

Home Office is issuing digital visas without completing necessary checks, Freedom of Information quest reveals

The Guardian - UK

About 280 contractor jobs cut after Labour ends Rwanda asylum scheme

Redundancies follow abandonment of previous government’s plans to send asylum seekers to east Africa

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