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Select committee accuses government of wilfully obscuring facts around ‘unsustainable’ trend

Last year, 100 retail cheif executives wrote to 41 Police and Crime Commissioners to report their concern for the rise in crime.

To cope with a record high backlog of asylum applications, the Home Office has announced it will instruct thousands of applicants to complete a questionnaire in English, instead of a face-to-face interview. If they do not do this within 20 days, their asylum application may be treated as withdrawn.

Separated children who arrive alone in the UK are being placed in hotels by the Home Office – and many of them are then going missing.

Exclusive: Susita Balasubranamiamm, 66, fought a six-year battle against the Home Office decision

Exclusive: Leaked emails show airport staff were guided to ease passenger waits during school holidays

Confusion has arisen around the British government’s own understanding of its citizenship laws, following a judgment by the UK’s high court. In a ruling handed down on January 20 2023, in the case of Roehrig v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Mr Justice Eyre determined that the restrictive…

A committee called on the Government to make the process for bringing family members to the UK ‘straight forward, affordable, transparent, and fair’.

Ernesto Elliott was due to be flown back to Jamaica in December 2020 but was taken off a deportation flight after last-minute legal challenges.