British citizens would get an “NHS health card” allowing them free medical treatment under a Ukip plan that would block foreign nationals from free care. Non-Britons would require private medical
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Full disclosure has been called for over the conduct of officials during the Windrush scandal, amid warnings against the civil service “closing ranks to protect its own”. Tory peer Baroness
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The Government is facing a High Court challenge over its definition of “torture” in relation to immigration detainees. Medical Justice, a charity which helps people in detention, claims current policy
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Britain’s treatment of immigrants means it is no better than human rights abusers, a former minister has warned. Labour’s David Lammy said the country’s moral authority is “in the gutter”
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A watchdog has called on the Home Office to examine why planned removals of detained immigrant families “routinely” fail. Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke recommended the step as he
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Survivors who were abused as children after being sent abroad under state-backed programmes are suing the Government for compensation. Thousands of Britons, many in care or from poor families, were
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Dozens of school friends joined two teenager brothers to hand in an 85,000-signature petition to the Home Office to prevent their deportation to Pakistan. Somer Umeed Bakhsh, 15, and his
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A Windrush migrant who died while trying to prove his British citizenship was described as a “shadow of himself” by his lawyer. Dexter Bristol collapsed in the street and died
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Jeremy Corbyn has called for an end to the privatisation of asylum and refugee accommodation as he met asylum seekers in Glasgow. The Labour leader met with a family fleeing
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As many as 164 members of the Windrush generation may have been wrongly removed, detained or stopped at the border, an official review suggests. The number includes 18 long-term UK
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