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The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain

Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision

The Guardian - UK

Popular Notting Hill restaurant 'hired illegal worker to avoid taxes and pay'

Immigration enforcement officers raided Sadaf, in Westbourne Grove, following a ‘tip off’

Evening Standard

Woman denied indefinite leave to remain in UK under Windrush scheme wins appeal

Home Office ordered to reconsider case of Jeanell Hippolyte, whose father and brother were granted ILR

The Guardian - UK

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Keir Starmer 'set to approve' Chinese super embassy in east London

Neither the Home Office or the Foreign Office will raise any formal objections to the plan, according to reports

Evening Standard

Migrants Could Face 30-Year Wait for UK Settled Status Under New Immigration Rules

The UK's Home Office plans to increase the qualifying period for immigrants to apply for indefinite leave.

International Business Times UK

‘Devastating to think of lives that could have been saved under different PM’, say Covid bereaved – as it happened

Findings of inquiry into handling of pandemic by Boris Johnson’s government paint picture of delay and inaction

The Guardian - UK

Windrush scandal still a stain on society, Floella Benjamin tells Lords event

Campaigners call for urgent reform of redress scheme and say they plan to launch ‘people’s inquiry’ into failings

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Who is Shabana Mahmood? The home secretary is the face of Labour’s most hardline immigration policies to date

Just 74 days into her new role as home secretary, Shabana Mahmood has unveiled what she calls “the most substantial reform to the UK’s asylum system in a generation”.

The Conversation

Shabana Mahmood hints at police overhaul to fix ‘irrational’ structure and vows ‘I will be a reformer’

The home secretary has told police chiefs: ‘I was a reformer at the Ministry of Justice. I will be a reformer at the Home Office too’

The Independent UK

Wes Streeting defends asylum system shake-up despite his unease

Health secretary says he is not comfortable with some elements of policy but that it is the right thing to do for the country

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s migration crisis: Is Labour’s crackdown targeting the right people?

IN DEPTH: As Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood faces a Labour revolt over her planned overhaul of the asylum system, Alex Ross looks at how effective the measures would be

The Independent UK

Labour peer accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘using children as a weapon’ in asylum reforms

Alf Dubs, who fled from the Nazis as a child refuge, described the government’s proposals as ‘shabby’ after the Home Office said it could deport children of failed asylum seekers

The Independent UK

77 Troubles deaths in England remain unsolved, Home Office says

The figures were released as MPs are set to debate and vote on the Government’s new legacy legislation later on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Charities take Home Office to court over ‘prison-like’ overcrowded migrant hotels

Government accused of forcing trafficking and torture survivors to share rooms with strangers in case that comes amid growing criticism over sweeping plans to overhaul UK’s asylum system

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The Guardian - UK

HMRC accused of being ‘cavalier’ with finances of child benefit claimants

Thousands of parents had their payments stopped after faulty data suggested they had left the UK and not returned

The Guardian - UK

‘No safe place to go’: people sent back to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal tell of desperation

In Paris, a group of those returned from UK as part of the immigration scheme say they feel frightened and hopeless

The Guardian - UK

Families of IRA victims in England told new Troubles bill could revive path to justice

Security minister Dan Jarvis says scrapping immunity scheme would give relatives a renewed chance for answers

The Guardian - UK

How will Labour’s asylum shake-up work? The government’s policies in detail

The home secretary’s new measures include plans to escalate the removal of families whose asylum claims have been refused

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The Guardian - UK

Labour’s asylum plans are horribly cruel – but they’re also a mix of hype, old policy and unachievable promises

There is mounting disquiet among Labour MPs, while the vulnerable refugees at the heart of this story are living with a renewed sense of panic, says Diane Taylor, who writes on human rights, racism and civil liberties

The Independent UK

Labour is at a crossroads on illegal migration

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Many are rightly uneasy about the home secretary’s draconian proposals for migration – but if overhauling our policy is what it takes to restore faith in the asylum system, Britain will be richer for it

Evening Standard

UK asylum system: Key numbers, trends and definitions

Some 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June 2025, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began.

The Independent UK

Migrants coming to the UK in numbers: What are the most common nationalities?

A total of 834,977 visas were issued to foreign nationals in the year to June 2025 to come to the UK legally for employment

Evening Standard

Migrants coming to the UK: What are the most common nationalities?

Indian nationals accounted for almost one in five visas to come to the UK legally in the year to June 2025.

International Business Times UK

Migrants Kept in 'Filthy' Ex-RAF Base Amid Claims of Giant Rats, Sewage Leaks and Overcrowding

Footage from the ex-RAF Wethersfield base shows rats, leaking sewage and overcrowded rooms as campaigners warn of 'open prison' conditions and rising health risks for asylum seekers.

The Guardian - UK

Reform MP invites Mahmood to join his party, saying he ‘welcomes’ and ‘recognises’ her rhetoric – as it happened

Shabana Mahmood tells MPs asylum system is ‘out of control and unfair’ amid Labour backlash over proposals

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