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Tory crackdown on scammers and cold callers branded 'too little, too late'

Ministers have announced plans to clamp down on 'spoofing' calls used to impersonate UK phone numbers and allow banks to delay suspicious transactions for longer

Daily Mirror

'An important step forward to a safer country' - Delight as Martyn's Law counter-terrorism legislation published in draft

The draft Bill will be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny by the Home Affairs Select Committee, ahead of its formal introduction

Manchester Evening News

The Home Office calls asylum seekers criminals one minute, heroes the next. It’s cynical and cruel

While Suella Braverman stokes fears about new arrivals, officials tell villagers in Essex a different story. Who should they listen to, asks writer Diane Taylor

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Tory branded 'Nimby' in TV clash as he says 'no one wants' asylum facility in their area

Sky News presenter Kay Burley grilled Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on whether he was a 'Nimby' (Not in my back yard) after his local council tried to block plans to house asylum seekers on a disused airbase

Daily Mirror

Home Office to acquire fleet of ships to house asylum seekers

Exclusive: up to 10 disused cruise liners, ferries and barges sought to help tackle processing delays

The Guardian - UK

Former UK head of coalition forces in Afghanistan: It would be a ‘travesty’ to deport hero pilot

Kicking the Afghan fighter pilot out of the UK would be so ‘contrary to British instincts’, says General Lord David Richards

The Independent UK

Albanian PM says UK in a ‘bad place’ and having a ‘nervous breakdown’ over immigration

Edi Rama says relations between countries reaches a low point

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Senior Tory MP blames Home Office for small boats crisis

Sir Bob Neill criticised Suella Braverman’s planned immigration reforms for focusing too heavily on the law rather than tackling the asylum backlog.

The Independent UK

UK government ‘hackathon’ to search for ways to use AI to cut asylum backlog

Three-day quest for innovations to tackle waiting list of 138,052 attacked as ‘wasting time on nonsense ideas that will go nowhere’

The Guardian - UK

Pregnant woman and child stranded in Sudan due to Home Office delays, says husband

Family have been waiting more than 12 months for documents and are now trapped amid violence in Khartoum

The Guardian - UK

West Country asylum seeker mum 'alone' and 'unwell' as children don't eat

Hyre is hoping to get access to a kitchen so she can cook for her children

Bristol Post

Police to get power to break up slow-walking climate protests, Braverman says

United Nations human rights chief calls for ‘wholly unnecessary’ new protest powers to be withdrawn

The Independent UK

Jet2 issues warning to travellers arriving in UK on Friday

Border Force Staff across the country will stage a walkout at the end of the week, causing significant delays

Manchester Evening News

Braverman’s comments on boat arrivals’ values rejected by fellow Tories

Sayeeda Warsi among those objecting to home secretary’s view people crossing Channel have values that ‘are at odds with our country’

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Furious Tory MP calls for 'quasi prison' barge for asylum seekers to be scrapped

Richard Drax - who said opponents are considering legal action against the Home Office plans - claims he wasn't consulted before Home Secretary Suella Braverman told him of the plan to house more than 500 asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset

The Guardian - UK

Afghan asylum seeker must be moved from Knowsley hotel, court rules

Home Office ordered to relocate refugee due to deteriorating mental health triggered by anti-migrant hostility

Evening Standard

How many police officers are there in England and Wales? Recruitment programme reaches target

The Government has succeeded in hiring 20,951 more police officers since 2019, which takes the headcount to 149,572

The Guardian - UK

MPs vote to support the Illegal Migration Bill by 289 to 230 – as it happened

Theresa May had warned bill will cause more people to be consigned to modern slavery while Geoffrey Cox also raised concerns

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The Independent UK

Thousands of Afghan refugees to be evicted from Home Office hotels with no offer of housing

Thousands of Afghan refugees are living in hotels after fleeing the Taliban in August 2021

Chronicle Live

Suella Braverman given council investigation into 'vulnerable' asylum seekers in Newcastle hotels

An investigation published last year revealed that refugees in the city were being left without fresh food or basic Covid protection during the pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak to announce recruitment of 20,000 police officers since 2019

PM ‘confident’ that government has met pledge made at last general election on police numbers in England and Wales

The Independent UK

Sunak ‘confident we are on the cusp’ of hitting target to hire 20,000 officers

Home Office data due to be published on Wednesday will confirm whether the milestone has been met.

The Independent UK

Costs for asylum hotels could increase by £7.5m a day due to Tory Bill – Labour

Analysis by the Labour Party is said to have shown that spending on hotels for asylum seekers could rise to more than £4 billion a year.

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman to tell police to stop ‘pandering to political correctness’

Home secretary to outline mantra: ‘More police, less crime, safer streets and common sense policing’

Wales Online

Braverman calls for 'common sense policing, not social justice'

The Home Secretary will talk about her vision for 'common sense policing' and confirm whether the Tory target to recruit 20,000 police officers has been met

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