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Home Office plans to spend £2.2bn of foreign aid on asylum support this year

International rules allow countries to count first-year costs of supporting refugees as overseas development assistance.

Evening Standard

Labour struggling to slash 'unsustainable' foreign aid spending on asylum hotels, despite vow to end practice

The Government is spending £2.2 billion of overseas development funds to house migrants

Evening Standard

Inside Home Office immigration raids as over 6,000 people arrested in illegal migrant workers crackdown

Home Office targets nail bars, restaurants and caravan parks across the UK as arrests soar by over 50 per cent in a year

Evening Standard

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UK taxpayers face extra costs as France plans Channel small boat interceptions

French government braces for legal challenges to new tactics, involving extra police, boats and drones

The Guardian - UK

Fei Er Cottage has failed to pay a £180,000 fine for hiring illegal workers, the Home Office said

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France plans to begin intercepting small boats at sea, says UK Home Office

Officials have agreed to begin offshore interceptions, it is claimed, in change of policy that NGOs say will risk lives

The Guardian - UK

Home Office accused of ‘racist crackdown’ on Nigerians after denial of visit visa

Officials refused entry to man who runs top security firm in Nigeria and his family to spend holiday with his sister

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Police warn Starmer of ‘stark choices’ on investigating crimes if faced with cuts under spending review

Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley among senior police officers who reportedly issued direct warning in letter to prime minister ahead of spending review

The Independent UK

Home Office draws link between Channel crossings and good weather

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Number of overcrowded small boats carrying more than 80 migrants across Channel quadruples

The government has vowed to crack down on people smuggling gangs, but they have faced accusations of mimicking Reform UK’s divisive language

The Independent UK

Tories brand blaming weather ‘lazy’ as likely days for Channel crossings double

The Government published the statistics after a record number of daily arrivals, as the Conservatives hit out at ministers for blaming the weather.

Evening Standard

UK ministers draw up law to fast-track removal of migrants arriving from ‘safe’ countries

Disclosure comes as calm weather and fuller boats leading to more Channel arrivals, Home Office says

The Guardian - UK

Home Office accused of 'dog ate my homework' excuse as it blames good weather for record migrant crossings

Home Office report links the mild, calm start to 2025 to the dramatic rise in small boat crossings

Evening Standard

Number of likely days for Channel crossings double compared with previous years

The data publication comes just days after the highest daily total of arrivals was recorded this year so far.

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Starmer faces further calls to sack his Attorney General

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp argued Lord Richard Hermer should be fired for having ‘appalling judgment’.

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Public has ‘every right to be angry’ about small boats crossings, PM says

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer suggested he was ‘angry too’, after Home Office data showed 1,194 migrants arrived in 18 boats on Saturday.

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Starmer signals he has duty to stop Channel crossings following record weekend

Some 1,194 migrants arrived in 18 boats on Saturday, according to Home Office data, the first time daily crossings passed a thousand this year.

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Manston staff asked to work overtime amid record number of small boat arrivals

More than 1,100 migrants arrived on Saturday, the highest number on a single day so far this year

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Evening Standard

Healey slams ‘shocking’ scenes of smugglers picking up migrants ‘like a taxi’

French police officers were seen watching as migrants, including children, boarded at a beach between Calais and Dunkirk.

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Record 1,194 migrants cross Channel in a day as UK urges France to act

France has agreed to change its rules so police can prevent people in the water from getting on to boats, but this has not yet come into effect.

The Independent UK

Repeated failings at migrant hotel where asylum seeker killed himself exposed

Special report: Staff at hotel were ‘not appropriately trained’ and Home Office officials didn’t know who was providing crucial services

The Independent UK

‘My father came to the UK to find safety – but he died alone in an asylum hotel’

Victor Hugo Pereira Vargas killed himself in his hotel room at a Home Office asylum hotel in October 2023

Evening Standard

Police carrying ‘scar tissue’ of austerity, says Met chief in bid for more cash

Sir Mark Rowley is one of six senior police officers who have publicly called on the Government to provide ‘serious investment’.

Evening Standard

Police chiefs call for ‘serious investment’ amid early prison release plans

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has agreed to allow some criminals, including violent and sexual offenders, to be released early for good behaviour.

Evening Standard

London council considers legal action against Home Office over £5m asylum seeker bill

Hillingdon council said it is supporting an increasing number of migrants who have been evicted from hotels

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