Rishi Sunak has not denied that he discussed scrapping the Rwanda scheme during his Tory leadership campaign in the summer of 2022. The Prime Minister on Monday stressed the importance
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Ministers have rowed back on plans to hike the earning threshold Britons need to bring foreign family members to live in the UK to £38,700. Instead, the Government has confirmed
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Social care leaders felt “blindsided” by recently-announced changes to visa rules banning care workers from bringing their families to the UK and have “grave concerns” it could drive people from
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A charity taking legal action against the Government over its use of a former RAF airbase as asylum accommodation said its efforts are a bid to “literally safeguard people’s lives”.
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The social care sector is “broadly relaxed” about changes which will see international care workers banned from bringing dependants when they come to the UK, the Health Secretary has said.
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Raising the income threshold for family visas will have a minimal impact on immigration numbers, a Government adviser has said. Rule changes will not be a “major player in reducing
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Immigration is “not the solution” to problems in the social care workforce, according to a Government adviser. Professor Brian Bell reiterated calls for care worker pay to “rise significantly above
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The Prime Minister has won a crunch vote on his Rwanda plan despite right-wing Conservative factions announcing they could not back emergency “stop the boats” legislation. With Rishi Sunak facing
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The death of an asylum seeker on board the Bibby Stockholm barge will be investigated “fully”, Home Secretary James Cleverly has said. Police were called to reports of the “sudden
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Local residents have spoken of their sadness at the “predictable” death of an asylum seeker aboard the Bibby Stockholm barge. Dorset Police have confirmed the “sudden death” of a resident
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