The Government has lost a legal battle arising out of a data breach when personal details of almost 1,600 immigrants were published online. Leading judges in London were asked to
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The NHS could benefit from a “radical simplification” of streamlining and making social care free at the point of need, former Labour and Tory health ministers have suggested. Lord Ara
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Around 1,000 welfare claimants will be given more money after the Government dropped a legal challenge. An appeal against a decision that regulations were wrongly interpreted in a Personal Independence
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Government-backed plans to criminalise upskirting have been derailed after being opposed by a Conservative grandee. There were cries of “shame!” as Sir Christopher Chope (pictured) dealt a blow to campaigners
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Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called on the Home Office to “urgently review” the case of a 10-year-old orphan who is facing deportation. Ms Sturgeon has called on the
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The NHS is to be able to recruit thousands more medical staff from abroad, after the Government announced a relaxation on visas. Doctors and nurses are to be excluded from
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Issuing identity cards would help avert a larger Windrush-style scandal post-Brexit, ministers have been told. Leading academic Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve argued of the need for “robust identification documents”, demonstrating
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The SNP have called for all MPs to have suicide awareness training after an alleged Tory jibe. The call came following Wednesday’s Brexit bill debate in which it was alleged
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Lawyers for two severely disabled men who won a High Court declaration that they had been unlawfully discriminated against have called on the Government to halt the roll-out of the
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Pro-choice activists have accused the Northern Ireland Secretary of making inaccurate and disingenuous claims about Westminster’s ability to legislate for abortion reform in Northern Ireland. Amnesty International criticised Karen Bradley’s
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