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Home Office spending ‘around £8m’ per day on housing asylum seekers in hotels

THE Home Office is paying “around £8 million” per day for asylum seekers to be placed in hotels.

The National (Scotland)

Cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels rises to £8m a day, says Home Office

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper calls daily bill ‘astronomical’ and accuses Tories of ‘utter failure’

The Guardian - UK

Migrant hotels bill climbs to £8m a day, according to Home Office accounts

The figure is higher than the £6 million daily cost cited by Home Secretary Suella Braverman in the Commons on Monday.

The Independent UK

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UK now spending £8m a day housing migrants in hotels

The figure is a significant increase from a previous cost of £6m per day

The Independent UK

Returns deal would focus on safe routes for children with family in UK – Labour

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the party has always insisted routes to Britain must be “capped” as she sought to defend its pledges.

The Independent UK

EU quota scheme not part of Labour asylum plans, says Cooper

Shadow home secretary says any deal to accept people from EU to focus on reuniting families

The Guardian - UK

Labour small boats scheme criticised as it sets out plans to cut asylum backlog

So-called ‘Nightingale courts’ will be used to speed-up asylum decisions, Sir Keir Starmer’s party said.

The Independent UK

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Starmer criticised by left and right after setting out plan to stop Channel crossings

Labour leader accused of pandering to anti-migrant sentiments by those on the left while Tories seize on proposal for deal with EU

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of new staff would ‘cut asylum backlog and end hotel and barge use’

Sir Keir Starmer this week used a visit to The Hague in the Netherlands to push his party’s proposed solution to the small boats crisis.

The Independent UK

Starmer calls Tory claim UK would accept 100,000 EU migrants per year under Labour ‘embarrassing nonsense’– as it happened

Labour leader says Tory response to his small boats plan shows ‘they’ve nothing sensible to say on issue’

The Guardian - UK

Starmer to seek EU-wide returns deal for asylum seekers

Labour leader working on ‘quid pro quo’ deal of migrant quotas from bloc in return for sending back those who arrive illegally

The Guardian - UK

Police chief hits out at Braverman’s ‘politics in policing’ crusade

Paul Fotheringham, president of the Police Superintendents’ Association, used his annual speech to hit back at Suella Braverman’s crusade

The Independent UK

France and UK could do more to tackle Channel crossings – Downing Street

More than 23,000 migrants have arrived in the UK so far this year after making the journey.

The Independent UK

Probe into China ‘spy’ in Commons ongoing, says the Speaker

Pressure on Parliament authorities to tighten vetting procedures

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The Independent UK

Braverman: Prevent reforms will help train people to spot genuine radicalisation

A major review found Prevent was ‘out of kilter with the rest of the counter-terrorism system, and the UK terrorism threat picture’.

The Guardian - UK

Labour, we know how terrible the Tories are. What we need from you is hope for the future

It’s not enough to point out the government’s inadequacies: Starmer must show us his vision of a better Britain, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Evening Standard

New powers to root out rogue officers after Met scandals must be made law without delay, ministers told

Government unveils plans to overhaul police disciplinary system after Wayne Couzens and David Carrick scandals

The Independent UK

Government unveils plans to overhaul police disciplinary system

Chief constables, or other senior officers, will have greater powers to root out and sack rogue staff from their forces.

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The Independent UK

Notting Hill Carnival violence shows need to tackle ‘zombie knives’, says PM

Eight people were stabbed at the event in west London on Monday.

The Independent UK

UK police given new powers to seize banned ‘zombie-style’ knives and machetes

The maximum sentence for importing, manufacturing, possessing and selling these weapons will be two years

The Independent UK

More ‘zombie-style’ knives to be banned as police given seize and destroy powers

The maximum sentence for importing, manufacturing, possessing and selling these newly proscribed weapons will be two years, the Home Office said.

The Independent UK

Forces have resources to meet police investigations pledge, says Braverman

The Home Secretary has implored officers to act on leads for phone or car theft, shoplifting and criminal damage.

The Independent UK

Police ordered to investigate every theft and follow every ‘reasonable’ lead in solving crimes

Home secretary says she expects ‘radical change’ in way forces tackle so-called ‘low-level’ criminality such as theft, shoplifting and criminal damage

The Independent UK

Police pledge to pursue any ‘reasonable’ lead to improve investigations

The Home Secretary urged forces to properly investigate crimes like theft or criminal damage which have been wrongly treated as ‘less important’.

The Week

Labour’s plans to tackle small boat migrant crossings examined

Labour has said people smugglers are “running rings” around the government’s efforts to stem the tide of small boats crossing the Channel after six migrants died and more than 500 others arrived on UK shores on Saturday alone.

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