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Rishi Sunak engulfed by row over ‘false’ asylum statistics as 100,000 migrants still stuck in backlog

Labour accused the PM of ‘barefaced lie’ after figures showed 4,500 so-called legacy claims are still outstanding

The Independent UK

Cleverly says UK asylum backlog cleared as almost 100,000 wait for decision

Figures show 98,599 people awaiting a decision, as ministers face questions over unresolved ‘legacy’ cases being counted as cleared

The Guardian - UK

Restaurant and building trades targeted in more raids on illegal working, says Home Secretary James Cleverly

James Cleverly admitted the Home Office does not keep track of asylum seekers who leave Britain

Evening Standard

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No 10 refuses to follow Cleverly in setting end of 2024 as target date for ending all small boat crossings – as it happened

Downing Street refuses to endorse home secretary as he says his aim is to reduce number of people crossing Channel on small boats to ‘zero’

The Guardian - UK

Critics left unconvinced as Rishi Sunak claims asylum backlog is cleared

CRITICS have hit out as Rishi Sunak credited “relentless action” after the UK Government announced it met a target to clear a backlog of asylum…

The National (Scotland)

Thousands of ‘legacy’ asylum cases awaiting decisions despite Sunak’s pledge

PM promised to clear backlog of cases from before June 2022 by end of 2023 but 4,500 complex cases need further checks

The Guardian - UK

'Bleak': Experts condemn Rishi Sunak's first Twitter post of 2024

STEPHEN Flynn has joined the voices condemning Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after his “bleak” first post on Twitter/X in 2024 ...

The National (Scotland)

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Total migrant Channel crossings down a third in 2023

For the first time in five years, since current records began in 2018, no Channel crossings took place on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day or Boxing Day.

Evening Standard

Top legal adviser told Sunak his Rwanda flights bill may not work

Top legal adviser David Pannick said to have warned individual appeal claims would limit the chances of success

The Independent UK

Sunak government quietly deletes damning report on Bibby Stockholm barge

Impact assessment which found radical plan ‘discriminatory’ pulled from government website

The Independent UK

UK's largest police forces record sharp rise in religious hate crime since Israel-Hamas war outbreak

Jewish charities called the findings 'shocking' while campaigners against anti-Muslim abuse said the data was 'deeply worrying'

Evening Standard

Father stuck in Turkey applies for judicial review of Home Office’s handling of his case

Siyabonga Twala, who has a British son, was barred from returning to UK a year ago and remains in limbo in Ankara

The Guardian - UK

Former missing persons detective ‘very surprised’ if Madeleine McCann probe gets funding next year

Scotland Yard has spent more than £13 million on the hunt for missing girl over 17 years

The Independent UK

Housing asylum seekers on Bibby Stockholm barge is discriminatory, Home Office finds

The department’s equality impact assessment found keeping people on the barge breaks the 2010 Equality Act on the grounds of sex and age

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

British-born man who has never left UK faces deportation

Dmitry Lima told he will be sent to Portugal, from where his parents arrived more than 30 years ago, after serving a prison sentence

The Guardian - UK

Home Office accused over ‘absurd’ rejections of Hong Kong asylum claims

UK caseworkers appear ‘predisposed to discredit’ applications, says senior figure of disbanded democratic movement

The Guardian - UK

Italian woman facing removal from UK despite ‘permanent residency’ card

Silvana one of potentially thousands who were unaware of need to apply for post-Brexit EU settlement scheme

The Independent UK

Ukrainian refugees falling victim to ‘extremely sophisticated’ UK visa scam, charities warn

Exclusive: Ukrainians are landing at UK airports only to discover that their travel documents and host families are fake

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The Guardian - UK

Home Office forced to pause evictions of refugees from hotels at Christmas

Robert Jenrick’s resignation leads to reprieve until new year, as charities warn of more people being made homeless

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak says Richmond barracks could be used to house Afghan refugees

The Home Office has deemed Catterick barracks in North Yorkshire as unsuitable for a large asylum facility

The Guardian - UK

‘I can dance, I can shout’: the charity bringing some joy to asylum seekers’ lives

Nzuzi Musungu says it’s ‘like therapy’ singing in the choir at Asylum Link, one of the charities our appeal helps support

The Guardian - UK

Italian citizen’s bank accounts frozen owing to ‘shameful’ post-Brexit rules

Massimo and his British wife Dee say settlement scheme designed to frighten immigrants into leaving UK

The Guardian - UK

Home Office banned from routinely placing lone children in asylum hotels

High court order says hotels can be used only for very short periods ‘in true emergency situations’

The Guardian - UK

Rightwing Tory MPs criticise Rishi Sunak’s ‘weakness’ over family visas U-turn – as it happened

The government says it is still planning to increase salary threshold to £38,700 but Tory backbenchers have called the move ‘deeply disappointing’

Evening Standard

Home Office reduces new salary threshold for family visas from £38,700 to £29,000

The Home Office said the salary threshold would go up incrementally, starting at £29,000

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