More than 170 councils have urged the Chancellor to provide more money for vulnerable people struggling with the cost of living when he announces his Budget this week, warning that
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Rishi Sunak has insisted his Rwanda deportation scheme is a “worthwhile investment” despite the public spending watchdog disclosing the cost of the policy could soar to half a billion pounds.
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The Government’s desire to clear a backlog of asylum seeker cases led to “perverse” decisions being made, a report found. In December 2022, Rishi Sunak pledged to “abolish” a 92,000-strong
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Border security at UK airports is neither “effective nor efficient”, the immigration watchdog warned as he described a Home Office “culture of defensiveness” in a series of reports produced before
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The family of Emma Caldwell have said Police Scotland failed their daughter and the rape victims of her killer Iain Packer due to a “toxic culture of misogyny and corruption”.
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Serial rapist Iain Packer has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 36 years after being found guilty of murdering Emma Caldwell in 2005. Packer, 51, was
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A serial rapist has been convicted of murdering sex worker Emma Caldwell and attacking multiple other women. Iain Packer (pictured), 51, was found guilty of murdering Miss Caldwell, 27, who
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A Welsh government minister used “disappearing messages” during the pandemic, an inquiry has heard. Vaughan Gething, one of the most senior members of the Welsh Labour Government and the former
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Lee Anderson has doubled down on his criticism of Sadiq Khan and refused to apologise for remarks that sparked an Islamophobia row, as Rishi Sunak came under pressure to call
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An asylum seeker has been detained for nine years and six months for the manslaughter of fellow migrants who drowned trying to cross the English Channel. Ibrahima Bah (pictured) was
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