Record high migrant Channel crossings for first three months of the year
Some 338 people arrived in boats on Tuesday, taking the total for 2024 to date to 4,644.
James Cleverly SACKS immigration watchdog amid row over border security concerns
David Neal ‘breached’ the terms of his appointment and was informed his time in post was being immediately terminated.
January migrant Channel crossings up 13% on previous year
Some 1,335 people arrived in the UK after making the journey from France in January, according to provisional Home Office data.
Home Office accused of lying about clearing asylum backlog by statistics watchdog
UK Statistics Authority chairman Sir Robert Chote said the ‘episode may affect public trust’.
Asylum seeker on board Bibby Stockholm dies
The first asylum seekers were brought back to the giant vessel, moored in Portland, Dorset, in October, some two months after it was evacuated.
Will the new Rwanda treaty see flights get off the ground?
Officials say the treaty centres on preventing ‘refoulement’, where asylum seekers are removed and returned to a country where they face persecution.
Whereabouts of more than 17,000 asylum seekers unknown to Home Office, MPs told
This is more than four times the number for the previous year when there were 4,260, the department said.
UK relaxes rules for foreign construction workers amid Brexit shortages
MAC has warned replacing freedom of movement with a points-based immigration system after Brexit could cut economic growth.