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Sunak’s pledge to clear asylum backlog on course to fail as system cost rockets to £3.6bn

Scramble to get figures down sees asylum claims removed from system because people did not answer questionnaire

The Independent UK

Home Office says government working ‘non-stop to reduce asylum backlog’

National Audit Office questions whether plans were sustainable in a report

The Independent UK

Government has ‘long way to go’ to meet asylum backlog goal

National Audit Office questions whether the plans were sustainable in a report

The Independent UK

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Danger of return to overcrowding at migrant centre, inspector warns

Accommodation levels were a key warning flagged in the report.

The Independent UK

Scots NHS doctor hits out after mum and sisters fleeing Sudan war refused visitor visas

A Scots NHS doctor hits out after mum and sisters fleeing Sudan war refused visitor visas

Daily Record

Rishi Sunak laughs with his hands in his pockets as he watches London immigration raid

The Prime Minister joined Home Office and Metropolitan Police officers in Harrow, northwest London for an immigration visit - but he himself dodged some questions about the Privileges Committee report

Daily Mirror

Home Office U-turn on festival drug tests ‘puts people at risk’

Exclusive: Festival organisers say onerous new licence rules for onsite drug testing could endanger lives

The Guardian - UK

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Glasgow NHS doctor devastated after mum and sisters fleeing Sudan war denied visitor visas

Sabreen Elbakri has hit out at the Home Office's "unfair" decision after her mum and sisters' UK visitor visa application was rejected, after they fled their Sudan home due to the ongoing conflict

Glasgow Live

No 10 criticises Nadine Dorries for delaying her resignation – as it happened

PM’s office says Mid Bedfordshire deserves ‘proper representation’ and delay to resignation ‘obviously unusual’

The Guardian - UK

US offers asylum lifeline to Afghan war hero as UK refuses to recognise his military service

Exclusive: Humiliation for Britain as America – alerted by The Independent – considers safe haven for pilot facing deportation to Rwanda

The Independent UK

Activists who blocked road to stop UK deportation flight to Jamaica acquitted

Jury clears ‘Brook House three’ of public nuisance charges over non-violent protest near Gatwick

The Guardian - UK

Campaign group opposed to 'asylum seeker hotel' apologises to Dafydd Iwan after singing Yma o Hyd at protest

Protestors say they did not mean to offend Mr Iwan and have explained the reasoning behind their choice of song

Wales Online

Home Office plans to ditch housing protections for asylum seekers face legal challenge

Three families launch action against plan to exempt landlords in England and Wales from rules including minimum room sizes

The Guardian - UK

More than 600 migrants cross Channel in 2023 record – days after Sunak claimed plan was ‘working’

Numbers crossing rise as seas calm during heatwave

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Data undermines Jenrick’s claim about asylum seekers saying they are children

Minister said up to a fifth of adult males seeking asylum pretended to be children, but Home Office figures say it is 1%

The Guardian - UK

Home Office faces legal action over children missing from UK asylum hotels

Charity alleges placing unaccompanied children in hotels is ‘unlawful’ and a national scandal

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of Afghan refugees in UK set to be made homeless

Downing Street crisis meeting hears that about 8,000 who arrived under Operation Warm Welcome will be evicted this summer with nowhere to go

The Independent UK

Home Office no longer considering asylum seeker barge site near Liverpool

Peel Ports said it could ‘not see any conceivable scenario’ in which public services locally could support the Birkenhead proposal.

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The Guardian - UK

Giant vessel housing asylum seekers could be docked in Plymouth

Devon port among south coast sites examined by Home Office staff amid calls for legal challenge to policy

The Independent UK

‘Cruel’ asylum barge plan rejected in London, Sadiq Khan tells Braverman

Labour mayor tells Tory home secretary to ‘abandon’ plan to put small boat arrivals in vessels

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan ‘strongly opposed’ to any London asylum seekers barge plan

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said he opposes ‘in the strongest possible terms’ any Home Office plans to moor another barge at the Royal Docks.

The Guardian - UK

UK provided £3m to Turkish border forces to stop migrants, FOI reveals

Investigation shows Home Office funds ‘return and reintegration assistance’ and provides equipment and training to Turkish police

Daily Mirror

Refugees heard 'screaming for their lives' after being locked inside 'coffin' wardrobes

Romanian people smuggler Adrian Constantin, 36 - who acted as a "minder" to assist gang members - was jailed for over three years after being extradited back to the UK to face justice

Wales Online

Gang smuggled children as young as two into UK in 'coffin-like' wardrobes

A court heard people were 'literally fixed and screwed' into furniture

The Independent UK

Gang member jailed for smuggling Afghan migrants into UK in makeshift coffins

The migrants were screwed into purpose-built coffin-like hides and smuggled into the country in the back of vans

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