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UK asylum backlog hits record high as over 175,000 await decision

Labour decries ‘chaos’ after data shows number of decisions rose but was cancelled out by bigger increase in applications

The Guardian - UK

This horror story visited on South Wales by Suella Braverman could be coming to a street near you

A far-right backlash against the home secretary’s asylum policy has brought a deluge of hate to a peaceful Welsh town, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Eleven people listed on first Rwanda flight staged hunger strike

Independent monitoring board reports ‘high likelihood of real harm’ if deportation policy implemented

The Guardian - UK

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‘A just outcome’: Military chiefs and politicians hail common sense victory for Afghan war hero

‘There are people who came to us for help, and we owe them,’ says former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, amid win for Independent campaign

The Independent UK

How the government fought against The Independent’s Afghan campaign – and was forced to capitulate

Rishi Sunak, his ministers and their officials dragged their heels for five months – saying it was not possible to offer the pilot help and arguing that the rules did not apply to him

The Independent UK

How The Independent fought five-month campaign to give Afghan pilot sanctuary in UK

Here is a timeline of all the frontpages that led to today’s monumental victory

The Independent UK

At last! Hero Afghan pilot who fought Taliban is granted asylum in Britain

Exclusive: After five months of resisting this paper’s call to honour our debt to a war veteran who fought with UK forces, the government capitulates – and does the right thing

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Festival boss steps up legal action over drug testing with ‘pop up labs’

Parklife co-founder Sacha Lord is urging the Home Office to legalise pop-up drug testing at festivals

Evening Standard

Q and A: What is the latest update to the EU Settlement Scheme and how does it work?

Find out about the latest EUSS update and what it means for pre-settled and settled status holders in the UK

Evening Standard

Home Office considered use of overseas workers in case of disease on Bibby Stockholm

THE Home Office considered drafting in overseas workers using a visa waiver in the event of an outbreak of an infectious disease on the Bibby…

The National (Scotland)

Home Office considered using overseas workers in case of disease on Bibby Stockholm

Ministers had planned to issue visa waivers to cover staff absences on barge housing asylum seekers

The Guardian - UK

Pete Wishart insists refugees should not be forced to share hotel rooms

A senior SNP MP has said no refugee should be forced to share a room in a hotel against their will.

The National (Scotland)

Refugee children sent postcards after Disney murals painted over at Manston immigration centre

Asylum seeker children are to be sent thousands of welcoming postcards as activists fight to restore Disney cartoons painted over by the Home Office at a migrant processing centre.

Evening Standard

No refugee should be forced to share room against their will, says Wishart

It is understood asylum seekers will have no choice but to share hotel rooms.

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The Guardian - UK

Is Braverman in or out? It doesn’t matter: what’s broken is the Home Office itself

Rishi Sunak is reportedly facing growing pressure to sack the home secretary. But the troubles go much deeper than that, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak fails to guarantee he will stop small boats by next election

The Prime Minister highlighted that the number of illegal migrants crossing the Channel this year is ‘down for the first time in some years’

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak suggests he can’t ‘stop the boats’ by general election

‘I never said we would solve it overnight’, says PM – as No 10 plays down speculation about Suella Braverman sacking in autumn reshuffle

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman lines up new £306m migrant detention centres to house 1,000 asylum seekers

Officials are seeking contractors to run three immigration removal centres (IRCs) amid the ‘unprecedented rise of small boat crossings’

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The Guardian - UK

More than 100 Manston asylum camp guards unable to start work

Recruits on full salary while waiting months for permission to work at Kent site due to lengthy security checks

The Independent UK

Afghan women kept apart from British husbands by UK government’s ‘callous’ English rules

Exclusive: MPs warned Afghan women face barrier getting to the UK due to ‘bureaucratic’ English language rules

The Guardian - UK

Suella Braverman refusing to roll out asylum-support scheme deemed ‘more humane’

The UN hailed a pilot project that cut the cost of helping refugees, but the Home Office remains set on hardline illegal migration bill

The Independent UK

£1m counterextremism funding returned to Home Office despite rising terror threat

Exclusive: Commission for Countering Extremism returns funds to government as sources say ‘no one knows’ what body does

The Independent UK

Thousands of modern slavery cases rejected in Home Office crackdown on ‘bogus claims’

Genuine victims of modern slavery not getting the support they need, charities warn

The National (Scotland)

Worst of Westminster: Home Office accused of 'mental torture' by student

Welcome to the latest edition of The Worst of Westminster, brought to you by political reporters Steph Brawn and Hamish Morrison.

The Guardian - UK

UK gun lobby accused of helping to ‘skew’ consultation on tightening laws

BASC and Countryside Alliance advising supporters how to answer consultation launched after Plymouth mass killings

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