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The Latest Breaking News from the Home Office

Windrush commissioner: Black Britons asking if UK is ‘going backwards’

Rev Clive Foster says rhetoric targeting legal migrants makes some wonder if history is repeating itself

The Guardian - UK

High court halts eviction of refugee under Home Office 28-day policy

Judge intervenes in case, disapplying government rule that charities say drives refugees into homelessness

The Guardian - UK

London restaurant fined £120k for employing illegal workers fighting Home Office bid for it to be stripped of licence

A Home Office investigation had uncovered three Bulgarian women without the right to work in the UK employed at the popular eatery

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Fact check: Fake MP defection video, bus pass verification and immigration removals

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

Evening Standard

Refugee misses chance to apply to bring family to the UK by 13 minutes after visa route closes

Refugees in the UK are unable to reunite with their loved ones after the Home Office paused a lifeline scheme in September

The Independent UK

Windrush victims to get 75% of compensation up front in scheme overhaul

Exclusive: Claimants will also be compensated for lost contributions to work or personal pensions for first time

The Guardian - UK

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Grooming gangs inquiry divided over the question of widening its focus

Splits grow over its remit as survivors angered by effort to recruit chairs from professions that failed to protect them

The Guardian - UK

Migrants lose late-night High Court bids to block removal to France

Mr Justice Johnson said there was a ‘strong public interest’ in allowing the Home Office to continue with the removals scheme.

Evening Standard

Asylum seekers removed to France include potential victims of modern slavery, says report

Humans for Rights Network also says some returned under ‘one in, one out’ scheme had family in the UK

The Guardian - UK

French coastguards demand halt to ‘deadly plans’ to intercept small boats

Union says UK-French Channel deal is inhumane and contravenes international conventions

The Guardian - UK

French political chaos could put UK migrant crackdown at risk

Reports suggest that France may retract its pledge to forcefully turn back small boats in the Channel, potentially undermining Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to curb migrant arrivals in the UK. The possible reversal is linked to political turmoil within the French government, according to sources speaking to the BBC. The…

The Independent UK

Migrants will be sent back to France ‘again and again’ – minister

Josh MacAlister said the detention of an Iranian national shows the Government’s one-in, one-out migrant returns deal with France is working.

Evening Standard

Shabana Mahmood says Home Office ‘not fit for purpose’ after secret report on department emerges

Dossier by ex-adviser Nick Timothy claims ‘culture of defeatism’ let immigration enforcement decline

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Teenage girl awarded scholarship at British boarding school trapped in Gaza

IN DEPTH: Exclusive: A gap in the Home Office’s evacuation rules means that high-school students with prestigious scholarships, like teenager Dania Alfaranji, have slipped through the cracks, reports Maira Butt

Evening Standard

Immigration turmoil as Mahmood says Home Office ‘not yet fit for purpose’

The number of migrants who have come to the UK so far this year in small boats has exceeded the total for last year, sources said.

The Guardian - UK

Shabana Mahmood says damning report shows Home Office ‘not fit for purpose’

Home secretary vows overhaul after previously secret 2023 review lists series of perceived shortcomings

The Independent UK

Mahmood says Home Office ‘not fit for purpose’ after secret report

The Home Secretary vowed to overhaul the department, which she said had been ‘set up to fail’.

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The Independent UK

Asylum seeker sent back to France under Starmer’s flagship ‘one in, one out’ scheme returns to Britain in small boat

The man is being held at an immigration detention centre as the Home Office attempts to speed up the case for his removal

The Independent UK

Three victims quit grooming gang inquiry

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Evening Standard

Israeli embassy in UK hits out at ‘hostility’ after Maccabi Tel Aviv row

Maccabi Tel Aviv will not take up its allocation of away tickets for the game against Aston Villa despite efforts to lift a ban on travelling fans.

The Guardian - UK

‘Significant exposure’: Amazon Web Services outage exposed UK state’s £1.7bn reliance on tech giant

Cloud computing disruption highlights risk of deepening ties despite warnings from UK’s own regulators, including the Treasury

Evening Standard

Maccabi fans could still attend Aston Villa match as talks continue, Downing Street says

It comes after the Tel Aviv club said it would not accept tickets even if the ban on away fans at Villa Park was overturned

Evening Standard

Victims can have confidence in grooming inquiry, minister says after two quit

Fiona Goddard and Ellie-Ann Reynolds resigned from the inquiry’s victims and survivors liaison panel on Monday and criticised the Home Office.

Evening Standard

Grooming gangs inquiry in disarray as potential chairwoman steps down and third survivor quits panel

The resignations have triggered renewed calls for the inquiry to be scrapped and replaced with a fully independent, judge-led process

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