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The government's new plans to tackle illegal Channel crossings could cost £9billion in the first three years, a refugee charity has warned. (Credit: Getty Images)

Government's illegal migrant plans 'could cost £9bn in three years'

Offenders convicted of crimes under the Modern Slavery Act have in some cases walked away with only a fine. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)
Offenders convicted of crimes under the Modern Slavery Act have in some cases walked away with only a fine. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

‘Shockingly slim chance at justice’ for victims of modern slavery

Charges brought in under 1 in 50 modern slavery cases - a record low

Photo: Mark Hall
Photo: Mark Hall

Shooting lobby gives hospitality to Tory MPs amidst gun reform calls

Gary Lineker is to return to presenting sport on the BBC after he was taken off air over a tweet in which he seemingly compared the UK government’s controversial new asylum policy to Nazi Germany. Credit: Getty Images
Gary Lineker is to return to presenting sport on the BBC after he was taken off air over a tweet in which he seemingly compared the UK government’s controversial new asylum policy to Nazi Germany. Credit: Getty Images

Gary Lineker back on BBC after asylum seeker row - what happened?

The Scottish and Welsh governments have urged the Home Office to appoint a new anti-slavery commissioner to provide scrutiny while it tries to tackle small boat crossings. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)
The Scottish and Welsh governments have urged the Home Office to appoint a new anti-slavery commissioner to provide scrutiny while it tries to tackle small boat crossings. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Devolved nations slam ‘unacceptable’ delay filling top slavery job

WhatsApp could soon be banned in the UK due to requirements of the government’s Online Safety Bill, the app’s boss has warned. Credit: Getty Images
WhatsApp could soon be banned in the UK due to requirements of the government’s Online Safety Bill, the app’s boss has warned. Credit: Getty Images

Explainer Why WhatsApp could soon be illegal in the UK

Operation London Bridge: the fire brigade in London spent £1 million on the Queen’s funeral in 2022 (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)
Operation London Bridge: the fire brigade in London spent £1 million on the Queen’s funeral in 2022 (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Exclusive: Queen’s funeral cost London Fire Brigade £1 million

There are “serious flaws” in the Home Office’s plans to cut the asylum backlog, refugee charities have warned. Credit: Mark Hall / NationalWorld
There are “serious flaws” in the Home Office’s plans to cut the asylum backlog, refugee charities have warned. Credit: Mark Hall / NationalWorld

Home Office plans to cut asylum backlog ‘unfair’ and ‘unreasonable’

Photograph of Shamima Begum held up by her eldest sister (Photo: Getty Images)
Photograph of Shamima Begum held up by her eldest sister (Photo: Getty Images)

Yago Riedijk married Shamima Begum after meeting for ‘10 minutes max’

Shamima Begum travelled to Syria with her friends to join IS in 2015 (image: PA)
Shamima Begum travelled to Syria with her friends to join IS in 2015 (image: PA)

What happened to Shamima Begum’s friends as legal challenge fails

Former schoolgirl Shamima Begum is appealing the decision to revoke her British citizenship after she travelled to Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic State. (Credit: PA)
Former schoolgirl Shamima Begum is appealing the decision to revoke her British citizenship after she travelled to Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic State. (Credit: PA)

Shamima Begum in profile as citizenship appeal dismissed by tribunal

dangerous domestic abusers will be recorded on the violent and sex offender register under new government proposals (Photo: Adobe)
dangerous domestic abusers will be recorded on the violent and sex offender register under new government proposals (Photo: Adobe)

Domestic abusers to be added to sex offenders’ register and tagged

The Home Secretary has demanded an “explanation” from Lancashire Police (Photo: Facebook)
The Home Secretary has demanded an “explanation” from Lancashire Police (Photo: Facebook)

Home Sec demands answers after Nicola Bulley private life revelations

Holidaymakers are being warned to allow 10 weeks for new passports (Photo: Adobe)
Holidaymakers are being warned to allow 10 weeks for new passports (Photo: Adobe)

Holidaymakers facing 10-week wait for new passports after fee hike

Over 175 children missing from Home Office-run hotels on South coast

New rules to stop ‘abuse’ of modern slavery laws despite UN criticism

Experts have warned that missing child asylum seekers may have been trafficked or coerced into criminal gangs. Credit: Mark Hall / NationalWorld
Experts have warned that missing child asylum seekers may have been trafficked or coerced into criminal gangs. Credit: Mark Hall / NationalWorld

Majority of missing child asylum seekers are ‘trafficked by gangs’

All police forces will be asked to check officers against national crime databases to identify if anyone has “slipped through the net”, the Home Office has said. Credit: PA / Getty Images
All police forces will be asked to check officers against national crime databases to identify if anyone has “slipped through the net”, the Home Office has said. Credit: PA / Getty Images

David Carrick: all forces to check officers against national database

Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, protesting against the government’s plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda. Credit: PA
Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, protesting against the government’s plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda. Credit: PA

Rwanda deportation policy to be reconsidered by Court of Appeal

Suella Braverman has been slammed over comments she made to a Holocaust survivor during a constituency meeting in Fareham. Credit: PA
Suella Braverman has been slammed over comments she made to a Holocaust survivor during a constituency meeting in Fareham. Credit: PA

Home Office accused of breaching Ministerial Code over Braverman tweet

Home secretary Suella Braverman. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Home secretary Suella Braverman. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Home Secretary ‘planning to ditch post-Windrush pledges’

A member of Home Office immigration staff has been arrested and bailed on suspicion of immigration offences. Credit: Mark Hall
A member of Home Office immigration staff has been arrested and bailed on suspicion of immigration offences. Credit: Mark Hall

Home Office staff member arrested over immigration offences

Yvette Cooper and Suella Braverman have clashed over the government’s Rwanda deportation policy.
Yvette Cooper and Suella Braverman have clashed over the government’s Rwanda deportation policy.

‘Unworkable’: Labour’s Yvette Cooper slams Rwanda deportation policy

Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, protesting against the government’s plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda. Credit: PA
Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, protesting against the government’s plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda. Credit: PA

Rwanda: High Court rules plans to deport asylum seekers are lawful

Travellers face disruption at Heathrow Airport in December due to strikes (Photo: Getty Images)
Travellers face disruption at Heathrow Airport in December due to strikes (Photo: Getty Images)

Border Force and ground staff strikes to cause disruption at airports

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes a statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London, where he announced plans to tackle the asylum backlog and Channel crossings. Credit: PA
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes a statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London, where he announced plans to tackle the asylum backlog and Channel crossings. Credit: PA

Rishi Sunak signs deal with Albania & pledges to clear asylum backlog

Majidreza Rahnavard was hanged from a construction crane in the city of Mashhad in the second known execution linked to the protests in Iran. Credit: Social Media
Majidreza Rahnavard was hanged from a construction crane in the city of Mashhad in the second known execution linked to the protests in Iran. Credit: Social Media

Iran executes second protester by public hanging from crane

Dr Charlotte Proudman, founder of Right to Equality, told NationalWorld how the law “doesn’t protect women and girls”.
Dr Charlotte Proudman, founder of Right to Equality, told NationalWorld how the law “doesn’t protect women and girls”.

Low conviction rates effectively ‘decriminalise rape’, lawyer argues

Calls to make public sexual harassment a specific criminal offence have been backed by the government, with sentences set to rise from six months to two years. Credit: Getty Images
Calls to make public sexual harassment a specific criminal offence have been backed by the government, with sentences set to rise from six months to two years. Credit: Getty Images

Home Office plans to make public sexual harassment a criminal offence

The government has not yet made a decision on whether or not to implement a key recommendation from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, the High Court has heard. Credit: Getty Images
The government has not yet made a decision on whether or not to implement a key recommendation from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, the High Court has heard. Credit: Getty Images

Government ‘not yet’ decided on key Grenfell Inquiry recommendation

Undated handout photo issued by National Crime Agency of their officers during an opearation where a wealthy Russian businessman has been arrested at his multi-million-pound London home by officers investigating potential criminal activity by oligarchs. The 58-year-old man, who has not been named, was held by the NCA on Thursday on suspicion of offences including money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the Home Office and conspiracy to commit perjury. Issue date: Saturday December 3, 2022.
Undated handout photo issued by National Crime Agency of their officers during an opearation where a wealthy Russian businessman has been arrested at his multi-million-pound London home by officers investigating potential criminal activity by oligarchs. The 58-year-old man, who has not been named, was held by the NCA on Thursday on suspicion of offences including money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the Home Office and conspiracy to commit perjury. Issue date: Saturday December 3, 2022.

Russian businessman arrested by police investigating oligarchs

The Home Office has a list of designated countries from which asylum claims should be considered “clearly unfounded” - but their figures show most are not. (NationalWorld/Mark Hall)
The Home Office has a list of designated countries from which asylum claims should be considered “clearly unfounded” - but their figures show most are not. (NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Exclusive: just 28% of ‘safe country’ asylum claims are ‘unfounded’

An inflatable craft carrying migrant men, women and children crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel off the coast of Dover, England. Credit: Getty Images
An inflatable craft carrying migrant men, women and children crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel off the coast of Dover, England. Credit: Getty Images

UK asylum ‘white list’ explained: which nations cannot claim asylum

Symptoms of diphtheria usually start two to five days after becoming infected
Symptoms of diphtheria usually start two to five days after becoming infected

Symptoms of diphtheria explained as outbreak reported at Manston

RAMSGATE, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Families are seen at Manston airfield migrant processing centre on November 04, 2022 in Ramsgate, England. The British government's system for holding and processing asylum seekers and other migrants has heavily scrutinised in recent weeks, amid complaints about conditions at migrant processing sites. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
RAMSGATE, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Families are seen at Manston airfield migrant processing centre on November 04, 2022 in Ramsgate, England. The British government's system for holding and processing asylum seekers and other migrants has heavily scrutinised in recent weeks, amid complaints about conditions at migrant processing sites. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Death of man at Manston may have been caused by diphtheria

Sarah Sands stabbed Michael Pleasted in 2014 after her sons told her he had sexually abused them. Credit: BBC
Sarah Sands stabbed Michael Pleasted in 2014 after her sons told her he had sexually abused them. Credit: BBC

Mum who killed paedophile calls for end to legal loophole on names

Former schoolgirl Shamima Begum is appealing the decision to revoke her British citizenship after she travelled to Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic State. (Credit: PA)
Former schoolgirl Shamima Begum is appealing the decision to revoke her British citizenship after she travelled to Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic State. (Credit: PA)

Shamima Begum may have been a child trafficking victim, court told

A man staying at the Manston migrant processing centre in Kent has died, the Home Office has said (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
A man staying at the Manston migrant processing centre in Kent has died, the Home Office has said (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Migrant staying at Manston processing centre dies in hospital

Why small-boat crossings in the Channel have reached a record high

RAMSGATE, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: A view over tented accommodation at a migrant processing centre on November 04, 2022 in Ramsgate, England. The British government's system for holding and processing asylum seekers and other migrants has heavily scrutinised in recent weeks, amid complaints about conditions at migrant processing sites. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
RAMSGATE, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: A view over tented accommodation at a migrant processing centre on November 04, 2022 in Ramsgate, England. The British government's system for holding and processing asylum seekers and other migrants has heavily scrutinised in recent weeks, amid complaints about conditions at migrant processing sites. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Manston: migrants to be given diphtheria vaccine after cases spike

Exclusive: Home Office warned of problems with asylum policy in 2020

The group of migrants from Manston who were abandoned at London Victoria station on Tuesday were reportedly left to sleep rough for two nights. Credit: Getty Images
The group of migrants from Manston who were abandoned at London Victoria station on Tuesday were reportedly left to sleep rough for two nights. Credit: Getty Images

Migrants abandoned in London left to sleep rough for two nights

Migrant men wrapped in a blankets are kept behind barriers at the Manston airfield migrant processing centre. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Migrant men wrapped in a blankets are kept behind barriers at the Manston airfield migrant processing centre. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Home Office minister criticises ‘cheek’ of illegal migrants complaints

Detention Action has launched legal action against the government over the conditions at Manston. Credit: Getty Images
Detention Action has launched legal action against the government over the conditions at Manston. Credit: Getty Images

Home Office facing legal action over ‘defective’ conditions at Manston

It is a “crucial” time for slavery work - but the Government has left the anti-slavery champion job empty for six months (Image NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)
It is a “crucial” time for slavery work - but the Government has left the anti-slavery champion job empty for six months (Image NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Home Office’s failure to fill anti-slavery role ‘appears unlawful’

Thousands of Albanians crossed the English Channel in small boats in the six months to June 2022.
Thousands of Albanians crossed the English Channel in small boats in the six months to June 2022.

Migrant crisis in 6 key charts - including Albanian channel crossings

A view of people thought to be migrants at the Manston migrant facility. Credit: PA
A view of people thought to be migrants at the Manston migrant facility. Credit: PA

‘A breach of humane conditions’: Manston migrant centre crisis worsens

There have been calls to reclassify the drug known as Monkey Dust from Class B to Class A.
There have been calls to reclassify the drug known as Monkey Dust from Class B to Class A.

What is monkey dust and calls to make it a Class A drug explained

Exclusive: Home Office was warned about Manston issues months ago

There are various eligibility criteria around applying for asylum and the process can take some time.
There are various eligibility criteria around applying for asylum and the process can take some time.

The process of applying for asylum in the UK explained

Suella Braverman has been dubbed ‘Leaky Sue’ over several reported breaches (image: Getty Images)
Suella Braverman has been dubbed ‘Leaky Sue’ over several reported breaches (image: Getty Images)

Suella Braverman email scandal continues as Labour calls for probe

The ISUunion are balloting members to strike over pay (Photo: Getty Images)
The ISUunion are balloting members to strike over pay (Photo: Getty Images)

Christmas travel chaos looming as UK Border Force votes to strike

Home Secretary Suella Braverman arriving for the weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on 18 October. And some tofu (Photos: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images/Pexels)
Home Secretary Suella Braverman arriving for the weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on 18 October. And some tofu (Photos: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images/Pexels)

Suella Braverman’s ‘tofu eating wokerati’ comments explained

Reclassifying cannabis ‘a boon for organised crime,’ experts warn

The Home Office said it expects the ‘highest standards’ of its staff (Photo: Adobe)
The Home Office said it expects the ‘highest standards’ of its staff (Photo: Adobe)

Ex-Met Police officer ‘suspended over racist WhatsApp messages’