The Latest Breaking News from Robert Jenrick

Kent council chiefs warn they are ‘at breaking point’ trying to cope as hotels booked up

Three Afghan asylum seekers who were taken to London from an overcrowded migrant processing centre in southeast England voluntarily returned to the site on Wednesday after being left with nowhere to stay, according to a Reuters photographer.

Robert Jenrick is reported to be planning to visit Albania shortly in a bid to beef up a deal the UK already has

The Prime Minister admitted that “not enough” asylum claims are being processed but insisted the Government is getting a grip on the situation

Exclusive: People who had been held at Kent centre left ‘stressed and disoriented’ at Victoria station for hours, some in flip-flops

Kent facility opened in January intended for short-term detention and processing of applicants but is already struggling with overcrowding after high number of Channel crossings

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the authorities on both sides of the English Channel needed to step up work to tackle small boat crossings.

Labour leader questions PM over small boat arrivals and overcrowding at Dover site; Sunak to attend Cop27 after earlier refusal to go

HUNDREDS have been moved out of an immigration centre in Kent following concerns it had become dangerously overcrowded. 

Site designed to hold up to 1,600 people for no more than 24 hours was holding 4,000 people

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said the number of migrants at the site had ‘fallen substantially’ on Tuesday.