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Sunak used incorrect asylum backlog figures, stats watchdog finds

Asylum data cited by the Prime Minister ‘do not reflect’ Home Office records, the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority said

The Independent UK

Migrants ‘set to be moved out of hotels into disused ferries and military bases’

Asylum seekers will be moved into ‘decent but rudimentary’ accommodation under new reported plans

The Independent UK

Sunak used incorrect asylum backlog figures in Parliament, stats tsar finds

Asylum data cited by the Prime Minister ‘do not reflect’ Home Office records, the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority said.

The Independent UK

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‘You walked in and your heart sank’: the shocking inside story of Manston detention centre

Last year, the short-term facility in Kent ballooned into a vast, unsafe camp holding thousands of people, including children. How did our asylum system get so broken – and what does it reveal about Rishi Sunak’s promise to stop the small boats?

The Guardian - UK

Nearly 10,000 modern slavery victims waiting over two years for Home Office decision

Exclusive: The number of people waiting over two years for a decision has tripled since 2021

The Independent UK

Afghan families say they are ‘trapped’ in hotels after losing High Court case

At a hearing in January, their lawyers alleged the Home Secretary was failing to fulfil a commitment to help them rebuild their lives in the UK.

The Independent UK

Top Tories including Rishi Sunak used misleading immigration figures, watchdog finds

The UK Statistics Authority has written to the government after three ministers including Mr Sunak claimed in December that the current backlog is half what it was when Labour was in office - whereas official figures show it is 150,000 higher

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North-South divide opens up in UK's 'broken and inhumane' asylum system

Latest figures show the North East is housing a larger proportion of people fleeing persecution than any other region of the UK, with a rate ten times higher than the South East and South West

Daily Mirror

North East takes in 10 times as many asylum seekers as Southern regions

New figures lay bare a North-South divide on the communities that take in people fleeing persecution in what is described as a "broken, inhuman" system

Chronicle Live

‘Ripe for abuse’: Outrage over anti-protest bill giving police more power while expanding stop and search

‘These powers are going to be used and abused by accident or design against people who may not even be protestors,’ Dame Chakrabarti said

Evening Standard

‘I’m punished again and again’: father barred from UK fights to get home to his son

Case of Siyabonga Twala, who is stuck in Ankara, highlights justice system’s disproportionate impact on black men

The Guardian - UK

UK asylum seekers who complain about conditions ‘threatened with Rwanda’

Refugee Action report calls asylum seeker accommodation ‘racialised segregation and de facto detention’

The Guardian - UK

MPs warn expanding stop and search risks more damage to police-public relations

MPs cited Baroness Casey’s damning review of the Metropolitan Police, which warned that stop and search is reducing the force’s legitimacy.

The Independent UK

Staggering cost of detaining and accommodating migrants under controversial illegal migration bill revealed

More than 250,000 people, including up to 45,000 children, could have their asylum claims deemed inadmissible, a charity says

The Independent UK

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Cost of detaining and accommodating migrants 'could hit £9bn in three years’

Charity says more than 250,000 people will have their claim for asylum denied with 10,000 sent to Rwanda in each of the first three years

The Guardian - UK

‘Draconian’ migration bill could leave tens of thousands destitute or locked up

Refugee Council figures reveal potential human and economic cost of government’s illegal migration bill

The Independent UK

‘Cost of detaining and accommodating migrants could hit £9bn in three years’

More than 250,000 people, including up to 45,000 children, could have their asylum claims deemed inadmissible, a charity says.

The Guardian - UK

Home Office delays Windrush grants amid row over social media posts

This year’s £150,000 allocation scrapped amid discussions about including groups critical of government

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The Guardian - UK

Met police found to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic

Author of landmark report says Met can ‘no longer presume that it has the permission of the people of London to police them’

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman tells Labour to ‘get off Twitter’ and visit Rwanda

Ms Braverman made her first trip to Rwanda as Home Secretary this weekend.

Daily Mirror

Greg James fiercely defends BBC in wake of Gary Lineker's Match of the Day suspension

Radio 1 DJ Greg James has stuck up for the BBC after the broadcaster banned Gary Lineker from presenting Match of the Day following his tweet about the Home Office's immigration policy

The Guardian - UK

British man deported to Jamaica launches action against Home Office

Richard Wallace wrongly classed as Jamaican and deported after serving murder sentence, despite having been born in London

The Independent UK

Prince Harry asked to give a month’s notice before making trip to the UK, reports claim

The Duke of Sussex was told that the time would allow for security requests to be processsed

The National (Scotland)

Home Office disputes leave refugee children homeless and sleeping in cars

MIGRANT and refugee children have been left homeless – with one family of five, including a preschool child, forced to sleep in a borrowed car in…

Wales Online

Rwanda ‘ready to absorb the thousands that will come from UK’ as Suella Braverman makes plans to deport migrants

The Home Office is 'working towards getting the flights off before the summer'

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