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UK in talks with France about deal to swap people seeking asylum

Officials discuss plan to exchange people who come to UK irregularly for some with family case for being in Britain

The Guardian - UK

Government ‘in talks on migrant removals agreement with France’

A Home Office spokesman said ministers are ‘intensifying’ collaboration with France and other European countries.

Evening Standard

Migrants arrive in UK after crossing English Channel

Pictures show people wearing blankets, life jackets and orange covers coming into Dover on an RNLI lifeboat on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

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Labour awards contract for asylum barges and hotels despite pledge to end their use

Exclusive: Critics urge the government to confirm that they would not restore the ‘inhumane use of barges to house people seeking asylum’

The Independent UK

Albanian nationals arrested after migrants smuggled into Britain on yacht

Exclusive: Three men were arrested after 20 people were found hidden on a yacht bound for the South Coast on Sunday

Evening Standard

More migrants arrive in UK after record English Channel crossings

Pictures showed people wearing life jackets coming ashore from a Border Force vessel in Dover on Monday.

Evening Standard

Record migrant crossings for 2025 as over 8,000 make small boats English Channel journey so far

A new record has been set with 8,064 migrants coming to the UK in small boats in the first four months of 2025

Evening Standard

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Prince Harry slammed for expecting King Charles to fix his UK security row

Prince Harry is facing fresh criticism as he continues to battle the Home Office over his taxpayer-funded security during visits to the UK.

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‘I didn’t trust the system’: lasting trauma of Windrush victim barred from UK for 10 years

Winston Jones, who for a decade was unable to return home from Jamaica, almost didn’t apply for compensation, fearing it was a trap

The Guardian - UK

Ministers try to encourage Windrush compensation claims with £1.5m fund

Government acknowledges that many victims have felt too nervous to engage with officials from Home Office

The Guardian - UK

Record number of migrants cross Channel in first four months of year

The French coastguard said 50 people were rescued at sea from various boats where some migrants asked for help on Saturday

The Independent UK

Record number of migrants cross English Channel in first four months of year

There have been 8,064 arrivals so far in 2025, including 656 on Saturday, according to provisional Home Office figures.

Evening Standard

Rising number of women stopped and searched by police in England and Wales

Home Office data shows a 7% increase in searches of women up to March 2024 compared with a 2% drop for those of men

The Guardian - UK

Polish woman, 80, threatened with deportation can stay in UK

Elzbieta Olszewska had previously been told she faced deportation after mistakenly filling in form online

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The Guardian - UK

Predictive policing has prejudice built in

Letters: Ilyas Nagdee of Amnesty International and others respond to government plans to use personal data to identify people most likely to become killers

Evening Standard

Migrants brought ashore in lifeboat as number of Channel crossings rises 25% in a year

People wearing life jackets were pictured disembarking from Border Force and RNLI boats in Dover on Tuesday

The Independent UK

Migrants brought ashore in lifeboat after crossing English Channel

Pictures show people wearing life jackets disembarking from Border Force and RNLI boats in Dover on Tuesday.

The Guardian - UK

UK Home Office loses attempt to keep legal battle with Apple secret

Judges reject Home Office’s attempt to withhold from public details of case concerning access of Apple users’ data

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The Guardian - UK

People held at UK asylum centre sue government for human rights breach

Asylum seekers detained at Manston in Kent say they were kept in unsanitary tents during infectious disease outbreak

Evening Standard

Visas shortage in key sectors revealed as Downing Street defends delay to new immigration blueprint

Home Office data shows that fewer than 181,000 visas out of a total of about 560,000 were allocated to foreign workers in the key fields identified for economic growth

The Independent UK

Home Office memo reveals Johnson and Sunak may have to give evidence at Manston migrant centre inquiry

Former prime ministers, home secretaries and senior civil servants listed as potential witnesses to inquiry into chaos at Manston migrant processing centre in autumn 2022

The Guardian - UK

Johnson and Sunak may be asked to give evidence at asylum centre inquiry

Ex-secretaries of state and ministers could also be required to take part in hearings into Manston scandal

Evening Standard

London hotels threaten to evict asylum seekers over unpaid Home Office contract

The threat comes as the number of migrants arriving on small boats over the last three months reached record levels

Evening Standard

Figures show more than 30,000 migrants crossed Channel since Starmer became PM

A total of 154 people made the crossing in four boats on Friday, according to the Home Office.

The Guardian - UK

Afghan rights defender told she faces ‘no risk’ from Taliban as Home Office denies asylum

Woman who worked with western governments in her home country before fleeing the Taliban told to return

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