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Number of asylum seekers at ex-RAF base in Essex to rise by more than 50%

Home Office to move 445 more people to MDP Wethersfield site, scene of previous anti-migrant protests

The Guardian - UK

High Court quashes Foreign Office refusal to help Palestinian family leave Gaza

The Foreign Office must reconsider the decision not to support a Palestinian family’s attempts to leave Gaza after they were told they could…

The National (Scotland)

Police unit in England to monitor online signs of anti-migrant disorder

Intelligence team could track social media and flag early signs of civil unrest in response to renewed demonstrations

The Guardian - UK

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Home Office to penalise asylum seekers who refuse to move out of hotels

Government concerned about risk of unrest spreading ahead of new protests at the Bell hotel in Essex

The Guardian - UK

UK ban on Palestine Action at odds with international law, says UN rights chief

Volker Türk says the Home Office proscription restricts right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly

The Guardian - UK

Fact check: ‘Asylum hotels’, employment data and ‘enhanced customs monitoring’

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

Evening Standard

Home Office working to ‘restore order’ as council calls for asylum hotel to shut

Multiple demonstrations have been held outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex.

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UK moves to reinstate extradition deal with Hong Kong despite concerns

The UK Home Office says the move will prevent criminals from ‘evading justice’; critics say it legitimizes oppression.

Al Jazeera

Migrant hotel threatens closure if just asylum-seeking men are housed on site

The Park Hotel in Diss, Norfolk, says it will shut if Home Office ends its existing family-only arrangement.

Evening Standard

Outrage as 4-Star Hotel in London to Welcome Hundreds of Asylum Seekers

Protests erupt at Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf as it prepares to house asylum seekers. Eggs thrown, police deployed, and costs hit £3bn yearly. Tensions rise over immigration policy, with locals and politicians divided.

International Business Times UK

Police commissioner joins council to demand closure of asylum hotels after 'multiple serious incidents'

Council leader Chris Whitbread said: ‘Repeated warnings to the Home Office about the unsuitability of both sites have gone unheeded’

Evening Standard

Home Office launches probe into use of asylum seeker payment cards for gambling

Thousands of transactions have been attempted in gambling settings in the past year, according to Home Office data.

Evening Standard

How the UK’s immigration system splits families apart – by design

The letter that arrived for eleven-year-old Guilherme in June 2025 was addressed personally to him. The UK Home Office was informing him that he and his eight-year-old brother Luca must return to Brazil. Their parents, an academic and a senior NHS nurse, both long-term UK residents with valid visas were…

The Conversation

Keir Starmer panned for ‘fuelling far-right’ with new asylum seeker crackdown

KEIR STARMER has been condemned over a new policy which will see the Home Office share information about asylum hotel locations with food delivery…

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Labour Government to share asylum hotel location information with food delivery firms

KEIR Starmer has announced that the Home Office will share information about asylum hotel locations with food delivery companies.

The Independent UK

False online rumours spark protests outside Canary Wharf hotel earmarked for migrants

Protesters gathered at the site in London after posts claimed migrants were being moved there from the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex

Evening Standard

Suella Braverman criticises plans to house asylum seekers in former shop

The Conservative MP said the proposal for Waterlooville town centre is ‘utterly inappropriate’.

Tom’s Hardware

UK to ban making ransomware payments for some organizations — targets 'public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure'

The UK Home Office and National Cyber Security Centre announced that some organizations could be banned from making ransomware payments.

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The Guardian - UK

Dover asylum protests pose danger to small boat arrivals, charities say

Home Office orders diversion from usual landing place to Ramsgate to avoid clashes with far right

The Independent UK

Asylum hotel data to be shared with food delivery firms in bid to stop illegal working

Information will be shared with food delivery firms to help them uncover abuse on their platforms

Evening Standard

Location of asylum hotels to be shared with food delivery firms in Home Office clampdown on illegal working

The Home Office said the plan will help delivery apps uncover abuse on their platforms and quickly suspend accounts but immigration lawyers argue it will be ‘ineffective’ and easy to bypass

Evening Standard

'It's a powder keg': Government warned UK faces another summer of riots after Epping migrant hotel violence

Epping Forest District Council leader Chris Whitbread described the Essex town as a ‘powder keg’ after violent demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel on Sunday

The National (Scotland)

Home Office to trial AI to check ages of asylum seekers

Artificial intelligence technology will be trialled to assess disputed ages of asylum seekers who say they are children, the Home Office has said

Evening Standard

Artificial intelligence to be trialled for disputes over asylum seekers’ ages

Ministers hope to roll out facial age estimation for migrants arriving by small boats and lorries over 2026 after trialling of the technology.

The Independent UK

Controversial AI technology will assess disputed ages of UK Asylum seekers

New system could be problematic, a watchdog says, especially where a child is denied rights and protections

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