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Undercover police flood City of London shopping district in Christmas shoplifting crackdown

Retail crime - said to cost the capital of £16.7million a month - will spike during festive period

Evening Standard

Mahmood to announce ‘sweeping reforms’ to tackle illegal migration

The Home Secretary is expected to set out plans to deter migrants from coming to the UK.

Evening Standard

TfL staff take fight to Downing Street over visa rule changes that could force them to leave UK

Union leaders warn dozens of TfL workers could lose their jobs and right to remain in the UK after changes to skilled worker visa rules

Evening Standard

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Sadiq Khan calls for pause in new immigration rules after 200 to 300 TfL staff put at risk of deportation

Mayor says people who joined TfL on graduate visa have been ‘left in limbo’ by Government restriction on foreign workers

Evening Standard

Senior Tory calls for Baroness Mone to resign over PPE scandal

The shadow energy secretary said the peer’s behaviour was ‘disgraceful’, saying the ‘honourable thing to do’ would be to resign

The Independent UK

UK politics: Jenrick’s ideas mostly ‘my thoughts repackaged’, says Badenoch – as it happened

Tory leader also claims the party was close to bankruptcy when she took over last year

The Guardian - UK

Illegal migration and Ukraine ‘dominant issues’ as European leaders meet – PM

The Government announced plans to end automatic family union rights for those granted asylum in the UK.

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Reform’s suggestions Starmer is inciting violence ‘offensive’, minister says

Home Office minister Mike Tapp also insisted that the Home Office would not be involved in any decision to cut Nigel Farage’s security.

Evening Standard

Migrant Worker Visa Crackdown: UK Businesses Face Fallout from Record Licence Revocations

Hospitality, care sectors face shortages, exploitation fines amid immigration reforms. Real impacts on economy and jobs

International Business Times UK

What was said in the Lord Mandelson emails to Epstein?

Lord Mandelson has been fired as the UK’s ambassador to the US over his connections to Epstein.

Evening Standard

Reform's Zia Yusuf in blazing row with immigration debate audience

A TOP Reform UK official got into a “blazing row” with members of the audience after a TV debate on immigration.

The National (Scotland)

Starmer ‘not up to the job’ says Labour MP as PM faces furious backlash over Mandelson: UK Politics live

PM’s top aide under scrutiny over reports he pushed hard for Labour grandee’s appointment as US ambassador

The Independent UK

Mandelson’s messages to Epstein were ‘disturbing and sickening’, says minister

Mike Tapp says it is important to ‘get to the bottom of this’ but says Keir Starmer retains confidence in ambassador

The Guardian - UK

Pressure mounts on Mandelson over ‘sickening’ links to Epstein

A Government minister said emails between Lord Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein made him ‘shudder’.

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Majority of illegal migrants are not rapists or sexual offenders, says minister

Several incidents of asylum seekers being charged by police with sexual offences have occurred in recent months.

The Guardian - UK

Trial UK and France ‘one in, one out’ scheme designed to curb migrant boat crossings to start within weeks – as it happened

Starmer says in exchange for every migrant returned, another migrant will be allowed to enter the UK legally

The Independent UK

Revealed: How Farage’s £80bn tax cuts would benefit the richest most

Exclusive: Calculations for The Independent reveal the richest tenth of the population would gain almost four times as much as the poorest 10 per cent from Reform’s tax plans

Evening Standard

Reform says county standards will fly as well as Union and St George’s flags

The party took control of 10 local authorities in England at last week’s local elections, including Durham, Lancashire and Staffordshire.

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The Independent UK

Fact check: ‘Deportation’ stats, Netflix’s Adolescence and an airport in Pakistan

Round-up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

The Independent UK

Reform UK candidate accused late Queen of ‘scrounging’ and called for Royals to be jailed

Exclusive: Reform UK candidate is facing calls to quit

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Labour MP Sparks Outrage with Comment on Welfare Cuts: 'A Lot of People with Disabilities Are Very Able'

Labour’s Rachel Reeves might have stirred up a storm with her £4.8 billion welfare cuts, but not everyone in the party is shying away from backing her.

The Guardian - UK

More benefit cuts would risk turning drops of dissent in Labour’s ranks into a flood

The government’s forthcoming green paper on welfare reform is likely to upset even the most loyal backbenchers

The Independent UK

Labour ploughs £400m into migrant deportation flights drive as it seeks to fend off Farage’s Reform

Exclusive: Labour is seeking a supplier for up to £392m to handle its deportation flights drive, which critics have dubbed a bid by Keir Starmer to ape Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

Evening Standard

Home Office unveils new 'smash the gangs' measures as migrant Channel crossings up 25%

Almost 37,000 people crossed the Channel in small boats in 2024 - up by a quarter on the previous year

Evening Standard

Proposed phone bans for suspected people smugglers branded ‘weak’ by Tories

Measures aimed at cracking down on organised immigration crime are ‘laughable’, shadow home secretary Chris Philp said.

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