Home Office

Sunak ‘plans to stop deportation appeals’ for people who reach UK in small boats

Home Office reportedly proposed two options to try to prevent those crossing Channel from claiming asylum

Tom Ambrose

04, Feb, 2023 @11:47 AM

Home Office shelves plans to house asylum seekers in Southport Pontins

Sefton council understands Ainsdale site no longer under consideration after objections about access and impact on tourism

Jamie Grierson

03, Feb, 2023 @8:20 AM

Royal commissions transformed Britain in the 1960s – we desperately need them now | Simon Jenkins

These independent inquiries would rise above the party-political deadlock over reform for the NHS and housing, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Simon Jenkins

03, Feb, 2023 @7:00 AM

The children going missing from Home Office hotels – podcast

More than 200 unaccompanied child asylum seekers have gone missing from hotels used by the Home Office

Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Mark Townsend; produced by Ned Carter Miles and Solomon King; executive producer Elizabeth Cassin

03, Feb, 2023 @3:00 AM

Afghan refugees settled in London told to uproot families and move 200 miles

Forty families brought to UK after fleeing Taliban given only weeks to move to West Yorkshire

Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

02, Feb, 2023 @7:40 PM

Border Force strike: cover staff report getting just two days’ training

Exclusive: Some NCA staff in Calais say they had little official training before being put to work at passport control

Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

01, Feb, 2023 @6:01 PM

UK curbs on international student visas would be ‘act of economic self-harm’

University leaders fear billions being lost as a result of battles within government over immigration policy

Richard Adams, Education editor

01, Feb, 2023 @10:37 AM

Prevent strategy review hit by defamation action before publication

Critics fear still-unpublished review into anti-radicalisation strategy could link it to extremism

Diane Taylor

30, Jan, 2023 @7:00 AM

Hongkongers in UK ask Suella Braverman to ditch ‘repressive’ anti-protest bill

Exclusive: Letter to home secretary says bill echoes ‘dangerously broad laws’ that result in jailing of protesters

Ben Quinn

29, Jan, 2023 @6:00 PM

Home Office publishes details of £70m contract to house asylum seekers

Charities have criticised ‘warehousing’ centres, calling instead for better integration in society

Diane Taylor

29, Jan, 2023 @4:00 PM

The car drew up. The children got in: UK child asylum-seekers’ narrow escape from kidnap

Alleged traffickers abducted three children from outside a Home Office-run hotel in Brighton last May. They were lucky to evade capture – many don’t

Mark Townsend

29, Jan, 2023 @6:30 AM

Revealed: child migrants racially abused and threatened with violence at Home Office hotel

Whistleblower tells of threats and illegal detention in fresh revelations about failures that drove children into hands of criminals