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Asylum seekers in UK go on hunger strike over ‘one in, one out’ removals

Many of the 30 people taking part in the protest are scheduled to be forcibly returned to France on Thursday

The Guardian - UK

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Suffragettes could have been banned as a terror group, High Court told

Palestine Action’s co-founder Huda Ammori is taking legal action against the Home Office over the decision to ban the direct action group.

Evening Standard

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Vulnerable migrants routinely handcuffed and detained for hours, damning report finds

Home Office accused of ‘inexcusable disregard for safety of vulnerable people in its care’

The Independent UK

Excessive restraint in immigration detention centres ‘deeply concerning’, report finds

Watchdog says force being applied ‘inconsistently, disproportionately, and without adequate justification’

The Guardian - UK

How new asylum policies will affect child refugees

The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has announced plans for the biggest overhaul of the UK asylum system in decades. Some of the harshest criticism of the proposals has come from Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, a former child refugee who came to Britain on the Kindertransport from Prague in 1939.…

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Hundreds take to the streets over plan to house asylum seekers at barracks

Campaigners marched through the streets of Crowborough carrying signs and flags, many wearing plain white T-shirts and chanting: ‘Send them home.’

Evening Standard

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The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain

Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision

The Guardian - UK

Popular Notting Hill restaurant 'hired illegal worker to avoid taxes and pay'

Immigration enforcement officers raided Sadaf, in Westbourne Grove, following a ‘tip off’

Evening Standard

Woman denied indefinite leave to remain in UK under Windrush scheme wins appeal

Home Office ordered to reconsider case of Jeanell Hippolyte, whose father and brother were granted ILR

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer 'set to approve' Chinese super embassy in east London

Neither the Home Office or the Foreign Office will raise any formal objections to the plan, according to reports

Evening Standard

Migrants Could Face 30-Year Wait for UK Settled Status Under New Immigration Rules

The UK's Home Office plans to increase the qualifying period for immigrants to apply for indefinite leave.

International Business Times UK

‘Devastating to think of lives that could have been saved under different PM’, say Covid bereaved – as it happened

Findings of inquiry into handling of pandemic by Boris Johnson’s government paint picture of delay and inaction

The Guardian - UK

Windrush scandal still a stain on society, Floella Benjamin tells Lords event

Campaigners call for urgent reform of redress scheme and say they plan to launch ‘people’s inquiry’ into failings

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The Conversation

Who is Shabana Mahmood? The home secretary is the face of Labour’s most hardline immigration policies to date

Just 74 days into her new role as home secretary, Shabana Mahmood has unveiled what she calls “the most substantial reform to the UK’s asylum system in a generation”.

The Independent UK

Shabana Mahmood hints at police overhaul to fix ‘irrational’ structure and vows ‘I will be a reformer’

The home secretary has told police chiefs: ‘I was a reformer at the Ministry of Justice. I will be a reformer at the Home Office too’

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting defends asylum system shake-up despite his unease

Health secretary says he is not comfortable with some elements of policy but that it is the right thing to do for the country

The Independent UK

Britain’s migration crisis: Is Labour’s crackdown targeting the right people?

IN DEPTH: As Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood faces a Labour revolt over her planned overhaul of the asylum system, Alex Ross looks at how effective the measures would be

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The Independent UK

Labour peer accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘using children as a weapon’ in asylum reforms

Alf Dubs, who fled from the Nazis as a child refuge, described the government’s proposals as ‘shabby’ after the Home Office said it could deport children of failed asylum seekers

Evening Standard

77 Troubles deaths in England remain unsolved, Home Office says

The figures were released as MPs are set to debate and vote on the Government’s new legacy legislation later on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Charities take Home Office to court over ‘prison-like’ overcrowded migrant hotels

Government accused of forcing trafficking and torture survivors to share rooms with strangers in case that comes amid growing criticism over sweeping plans to overhaul UK’s asylum system

The Guardian - UK

HMRC accused of being ‘cavalier’ with finances of child benefit claimants

Thousands of parents had their payments stopped after faulty data suggested they had left the UK and not returned

The Guardian - UK

‘No safe place to go’: people sent back to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal tell of desperation

In Paris, a group of those returned from UK as part of the immigration scheme say they feel frightened and hopeless

The Guardian - UK

Families of IRA victims in England told new Troubles bill could revive path to justice

Security minister Dan Jarvis says scrapping immunity scheme would give relatives a renewed chance for answers

The Guardian - UK

How will Labour’s asylum shake-up work? The government’s policies in detail

The home secretary’s new measures include plans to escalate the removal of families whose asylum claims have been refused

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