The Latest Breaking News from Priti Patel

After cancellation of Africa flight, home secretary tries to stem slavery claims from refugees hoping to stay in UK

Home Secretary Priti Patel is drawing up plans for another Rwanda flight for asylum seekers within weeks - and sources insisted it could come before a full High Court hearing into whether the policy is legal

Lord Geidt has become the second Independent Advisor on the Ministerial Code to resign since Mr Johnson became PM.

Editorial: There is a grotesque cynicism about a government asylum policy that is built to fail and designed to provoke outrage

REFUGEES living in Scotland have said the Tory government’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda are “cruel” and would not put them off…

A flight chartered to send asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda as part of a new government policy was grounded following an intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The plan to deport asylum seekers for processing in Rwanda is intended, the government says, to deter people…

After ruling by Strasbourg court, No 10 refuses to rule out withdrawing from European convention on human rights

In the week that £100,000 worth of counterfeit goods, including Wonka chocolate bars, were seized by trading standards staff following raids on American candy stores on Oxford Street, Priti Patel came to Parliament and delivered her best Gene Wilder “Stop. Don’t. Come back“ impression.

Downing Street said all options were on the table, including pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights.