Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Home Office

Staff at immigration detention centre wore England flags, report finds

Chair of prisons and detention watchdog concerned about intimidating effect as wide-ranging and damning review published

The Guardian - UK

Author of Home Office report on China reveals attempts to compromise him

Exclusive: Dr David Wilson says former British police officer approached him as part of efforts to influence his work

The Guardian - UK

Concerns raised about thousands of babies in temporary accommodation

THE health and wellbeing of hundreds of babies and toddlers is at risk in temporary accommodation, it is claimed, due to unsafe sleeping conditions,…

The National (Scotland)

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Inside one man’s botched deportation: seven flights, two swallowed batteries and a staggering bill for the UK taxpayer

Omar is married to a British woman, has a British son and was given a single non-custodial sentence nine years ago. Nonetheless, the Home Office was determined to deport him – whatever the cost

The Guardian - UK

UK Home Office to use AI age estimation on asylum seekers – how accurate is the technology?

Starting next year, the Home Office plans to use AI-driven facial age estimation to assess the age of asylum seekers. At the UK border, deciding whether someone is 17 or 19 is a consequential judgment. Get it wrong one way, and a vulnerable child loses legal protections they’re entitled to.…

The Conversation

Home Office admits it has lost track of migrants with no right to be in UK – but doesn’t know how many

Home Office still focused on ‘short-term fixes’ to broken asylum system, MPs warn

The Independent UK

Stephen Lawrence mother hits out at Badenoch over comments about her son following Henry Nowak murder

Doreen Lawrence responded to Badenoch’s assertion that the police’s response to Henry Nowak’s murder ‘must be a seminal moment for Britain on a par with the murder of Stephen Lawrence’

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

'The Mighty United Kingdom is Afraid of Speech': Free Speech Activists Condemn Ban on Hasan Piker

The ban on Hasan Piker in the UK has triggered a growing free speech controversy, with civil liberties groups and political figures criticising Britain's decision to block the commentator.

International Business Times UK

Hasan Piker's UK Ban Takes New Twist After Jeremy Corbyn Meeting Plans Surface

New reports reveal Hasan Piker had planned talks with leading left-wing politicians before being barred from entering the UK.

International Business Times UK

Home Office Slammed By Hundreds of Charities for Using AI to Assess If Migrant Kids Are Adults

The UK Home Office faces criticism from over 400 charities for using AI to assess the age of asylum seekers, fearing misclassification of children as adults.

International Business Times UK

'Go Home' Letters Ignite Fury as Children as Young as Five Ordered to Leave the UK

The UK faces backlash after Home Office letters ordered children of migrant care workers to leave, highlighting the human cost of recent immigration policy changes.

International Business Times UK

Windrush compensation scheme needs significant overhaul, MPs told

Victims should be given legal support to help slash number of claimants denied payouts, says Windrush commissioner

The Guardian - UK

Home Office tells kids as young as 5 they have to leave UK

THE Home Office has told children as young as five who are living legally in the UK that they must leave the country even if their parents have been…

The National (Scotland)

Home Office sends letters to children as young as five saying they must leave UK

Children of those on care worker visas – who came legally before rule change – told to leave even if parents can stay

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers

Coalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilities

The Independent UK

Number of UK motorists using phones illegally while driving reaches eight-year high

Home Office data shows the number of people in England and Wales convicted for using a handheld mobile phone while driving was 40,723 for 2024, the highest level since 2016

The Independent UK

Home Office urged to revoke the visa of US live-streamer Hasan Piker ahead of London speech

IN FULL

The Independent UK

More than 1,000 migrants arrive in UK after crossing English Channel during heatwave

Some 1,128 people arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel between Friday and Tuesday, according to Home Office figures

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

More than 1,000 migrants cross Channel amid hot weather

Migrants have made the journey over six consecutive days since Friday.

The National (Scotland)

Kenmure Street documentary 'reawakening' fight against anti-immigration rhetoric

AN AWARD-WINNING documentary about how a Glasgow community came together to resist a Home Office immigration raid has “reawakened” people’s…

The Guardian - UK

‘I don’t have a life’: man sent to France in ‘one in, one out’ refugee scheme tells of return to UK

Exclusive: ‘Desperate’ man, in hiding after returning in a lorry, says he knows of 18 others from scheme who live in Britain covertly

The Independent UK

Government to review non-custodial sentence for three boys convicted of rape

Former Home Office minister Jess Phillips and Kemi Badenoch have criticised ‘unduly lenient’ sentences

The Conversation

Net migration and asylum claims have fallen – here’s what the latest figures tell us

The latest figures on immigration to the UK show a sharp decline in net migration, which is now at its lowest point since 2012, excluding the pandemic years.

The Independent UK

Hundreds of migrant children put at ‘significant’ risk after being wrongly classified as adults

Exclusive: Home Office accused of ‘safeguarding failure’ after hundreds of migrant children were initially assessed as adults

The Independent UK

Number of asylum seekers being housed in UK hotels drops 35% year-on-year

The figures for the 12 months to December are down 48% compared to the previous year (331,000)

1 … 3 4 5 6

People

Geoffrey CliftonBrown

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Border Security Command

25 stories

GFT

17 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.