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Prime Minister threatens Passport Office with privatisation over backlog

Boris Johnson also put the DVLA and other ‘arm’s length’ bodies on notice, a senior Government source said.

The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022

Boris Johnson threatens to 'privatise the a**e off' Passport Office in shambolic backlog

The Prime Minister is set to hold crunch talks next week with the agency's chief, in a desperate bid to clear the backlog that has a 10-week average wait.

Daily Mirror · Apr 26, 2022

Passport warning amid Home Office 'shambles' that could ruin your summer holiday

The government says people should apply for their new passports long in advance of their expiry as delays clog up the system ahead of the summer holidays

Bristol Post · Apr 26, 2022

Labour blasts Home Office as latest passport 'chaos' derails Easter plans

Labour tonight criticises Home Office ministers over passport “chaos” which has scuppered some families’ Easter holidays. Travel plans have had to be scrapped because of a backlog in applications fuelled by a race to renew documents after coronavir

Daily Mirror · Apr 15, 2022

UK politics: fury from unions as pay rises for civil servants capped at 3% – as it happened

Public and Commercial Services Union says offer is in effect a pay cut because of rising inflation and prices

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2022

Hundreds of lone child refugees still placed in ‘unacceptable’ hotels

Primary school aged children have been placed in unregulated hotels youngsters have disappeared from

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2022

Ukraine refugees trying to get UK visas facing ‘Kafkaesque’ system, MPs told

Shadow home secretary says tens of thousands of desperate people still stuck in system

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2022

Salisbury Novichok survivor sickened at UK using attack not to grant Ukrainians visas

Charlie Rowley, whose girlfriend died in the 2018 Novichok horror, was astonished after the Home Secretary and immigration minister Kevin Foster wheeled out the excuse this week

Daily Mirror · Mar 12, 2022

Tory MPs line up to condemn Priti Patel over visa shambles for families fleeing Ukraine

One Tory MP suggested the Home Secretary should resign while another compared the Home Office to a snail after just 500 family visas were given out since Friday

Daily Mirror · Mar 8, 2022

UK criticised over Ukraine refugee scheme, says 500 visas issued so far

The British government faced heavy criticism from all sides of parliament on Tuesday over its policy towards Ukrainian refugees after Immigration Minister Kevin Foster said Britain had so far issued 500 visas to those fleeing the Russian invasion.

Reuters · Mar 8, 2022