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UK ministers considering limit on foreign care workers’ dependants

Steve Barclay says home secretary is looking at restrictions after Robert Jenrick proposed banning workers from bringing children

Aletha Adu Political correspondent

29, Nov, 2023 @9:23 AM

Thousands of refugees in England and Wales ‘face homeless Christmas’

Government push to clear asylum backlog is not giving people granted refugee status enough time to find new home, say councils

Rajeev Syal

29, Nov, 2023 @12:01 AM

Omid Scobie’s book on royal family pulled from Dutch shelves over ‘error’

Book reportedly revealed who expressed ‘concerns’ about what skin colour Harry and Meghan’s son would have

Nadeem Badshah

28, Nov, 2023 @9:26 PM

Landlords of crowded London flat that caught fire plead guilty to criminal charges

Mizanur Rahman, a 41-year-old father of two, was killed in a fire at the flat in Shadwell

Peter Apps

28, Nov, 2023 @8:58 PM

Robert Jenrick distances himself from Rishi Sunak over immigration cuts

Immigration minister says he would have brought in plans to curb net migration ‘before last Christmas’ if he could

Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

28, Nov, 2023 @7:22 PM

Penny Lane street sign back in Liverpool 47 years after drunken theft

Former student of city who returned marker for road made famous by the Beatles says thieves were ‘worse for wear’

Nadeem Badshah

28, Nov, 2023 @6:58 PM

Teenager wrote plan for how to kill schoolgirl Brianna Ghey, court hears

Both defendants accept they were with the teenager when she was killed but blame each other for murder, court told

Helen Pidd North of England editor

28, Nov, 2023 @6:17 PM

Glasgow’s Grand Ole Opry votes to ban use of Confederate flag

Country music venue will not display flag due to ‘toxic’ associations with slavery and white supremacy

Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

28, Nov, 2023 @6:15 PM

UK anti-strike rules may breach international law, MPs and peers warn

Joint committee on human rights says some public sector workers may be completely prevented from striking

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

28, Nov, 2023 @3:57 PM

Dominic Cummings joked about trip to countryside before Barnard Castle visit

Covid inquiry sees message from Boris Johnson’s ex-adviser shortly before his much-criticised trip to County Durham

Peter Walker Deputy political editor

28, Nov, 2023 @3:28 PM

Nottingham attacks: man admits killing three but denies murder

Valdo Calocane, also known as Adam Mendes, admits killing Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates in June

Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

28, Nov, 2023 @1:02 PM

Michael Gove apologises for mistakes by government during Covid crisis

UK was too slow to lock down and initial approach to testing was chaotic, minister tells inquiry