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Lessons not learned after Georgia Barter driven to suicide by abuse, says her mother

Family ‘saddened’ by minister’s response to London coroner’s concerns over police database access

The Guardian - UK

Cameron Barracks asylum seeker plans ‘made up on back of an envelope’ – Swinney

Concerns had been raised about the impact on the community in Inverness.

Evening Standard

UK asylum seekers to be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments

Move, which is part of crackdown on costs, comes after it emerged Home Office spends £15.8m a year on service

The Guardian - UK

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Home Office delays plan to house 300 male asylum seekers at Highland barracks

The UK Government said it did not want ‘replicate the mistakes of the past where rushed plans led to unsafe and chaotic situations’.

Evening Standard

UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia

UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights

The Independent UK

UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa

Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined

The Guardian - UK

Rooney books may be pulled from UK sale due to Palestine Action ban, court told

The Normal People author has given her support to the banned group, the High Court heard.

Evening Standard

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Asylum claims at new record high but backlog down by more than a third

A total of 110,051 people applied for asylum in the year to September 2025.

Evening Standard

Revealed: 4,232 more asylum seekers in hotels as visas issued to foreign workers plummet

Net migration has dropped to the lowest annual figure since 2021 but the number of migrants housed in hotels is now at 36,273

Evening Standard

Number of migrants in asylum seeker hotels rises despite Labour pledge to end their use

Record 110,000 people claimed asylum in the UK in the past year

The Independent UK

UK net migration predicted to drop to pre-Brexit levels, figures show

The British Future thinktank’s data predicts net migration to the UK will fall to about 300,000, less than a third of 2023’s figures

The Guardian - UK

Asylum seekers in UK go on hunger strike over ‘one in, one out’ removals

Many of the 30 people taking part in the protest are scheduled to be forcibly returned to France on Thursday

The Guardian - UK

Everything you need to know about the new British passport

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Evening Standard

Suffragettes could have been banned as a terror group, High Court told

Palestine Action’s co-founder Huda Ammori is taking legal action against the Home Office over the decision to ban the direct action group.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Vulnerable migrants routinely handcuffed and detained for hours, damning report finds

Home Office accused of ‘inexcusable disregard for safety of vulnerable people in its care’

The Guardian - UK

Excessive restraint in immigration detention centres ‘deeply concerning’, report finds

Watchdog says force being applied ‘inconsistently, disproportionately, and without adequate justification’

The Conversation

How new asylum policies will affect child refugees

The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has announced plans for the biggest overhaul of the UK asylum system in decades. Some of the harshest criticism of the proposals has come from Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, a former child refugee who came to Britain on the Kindertransport from Prague in 1939.…

Evening Standard

Hundreds take to the streets over plan to house asylum seekers at barracks

Campaigners marched through the streets of Crowborough carrying signs and flags, many wearing plain white T-shirts and chanting: ‘Send them home.’

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The Guardian - UK

The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain

Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision

Evening Standard

Immigration enforcement officers raided Sadaf, in Westbourne Grove, following a ‘tip off’

The Guardian - UK

Woman denied indefinite leave to remain in UK under Windrush scheme wins appeal

Home Office ordered to reconsider case of Jeanell Hippolyte, whose father and brother were granted ILR

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer 'set to approve' Chinese super embassy in east London

Neither the Home Office or the Foreign Office will raise any formal objections to the plan, according to reports

International Business Times UK

Migrants Could Face 30-Year Wait for UK Settled Status Under New Immigration Rules

The UK's Home Office plans to increase the qualifying period for immigrants to apply for indefinite leave.

The Guardian - UK

‘Devastating to think of lives that could have been saved under different PM’, say Covid bereaved – as it happened

Findings of inquiry into handling of pandemic by Boris Johnson’s government paint picture of delay and inaction

The Guardian - UK

Windrush scandal still a stain on society, Floella Benjamin tells Lords event

Campaigners call for urgent reform of redress scheme and say they plan to launch ‘people’s inquiry’ into failings

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