Migration

Liz Truss says it is ‘unfair’ to blame her mini-budget for interest rate hike and rules out being PM again – as it happened

UK’s shortest-serving prime minister says she ‘learned a lot’ from time in government but does not want top job again

Andrew Sparrow

06, Feb, 2023 @6:02 PM

Manston health concerns raised with Home Office weeks before outbreak

Local officials warned of need to improve infection control measures shortly before diphtheria cases detected

Diane Taylor

06, Feb, 2023 @11:44 AM

Fugitive turned Sydney identity Darko ‘Dougie’ Desic granted permanent visa

The 65-year-old made headlines by handing himself in after 29 years on the run. But supporters are celebrating after he won the right to stay in his adopted homeland

Ben Doherty

06, Feb, 2023 @10:14 AM

Care worker whistleblower outed by Home Office over exploitation claims

Zimbabwean worker whose visa relies on job says government disclosed confidential details of interview to employer

Charlie Moloney and Shanti Das

05, Feb, 2023 @6:00 AM

‘Grown men were sobbing’: the story of a refugee family who survived war and pirates to build a life in country NSW

Coonamble, seven hours north-west of Sydney, embraced the Do family, and in return, Deanne and Minh fed them for the next 35 years

Fleur Connick

04, Feb, 2023 @7:00 PM

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

‘Constantly displaced’: migrants to New York City seek housing in freezing cold

Arrivals were welcomed and housed in a Manhattan hotel upon arrival, but are now warehoused in a frigid corner of Brooklyn

Samira Asma-Sadeque

04, Feb, 2023 @11:00 AM

Baby among nine dead from cold and thirst on boat in Mediterranean

Survivors tell Italian authorities vessel carrying about 50 people lost its way trying to cross from Tunisia

Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

03, Feb, 2023 @5:42 PM

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

Alf Dubs: Braverman calling refugees ‘invaders’ was low point of my career

Labour peer who fled to UK to escape Nazis says home secretary’s words ‘deeply and personally upsetting’

Peter Walker Political correspondent

03, Feb, 2023 @6:00 AM

Sunak tells Piers Morgan ‘biological sex matters’ – as it happened

Prime minister speaks in interview on TalkTV to mark his 100th day in office

Nadeem Badshah (now) and Andrew Sparrow (earlier)

02, Feb, 2023 @8:59 PM

New Zealand PM welcomes change to Australia’s ‘corrosive’ deportation policy

Length of time someone has lived in Australia will be taken into account when considering whether to deport Kiwis who have been sentenced to a year or more in prison

Charlotte Graham-McLay and Henry Belot

01, Feb, 2023 @12:39 AM