Politics

Curbing the power of judges in asylum cases to tackle the migrant hotel crisis is a typical Keir Starmer response to a problem. The...

Passengers could be banned from causing a “nuisance” by playing loud music on public transport under proposals to change the law set out by...

Nigel Farage has said he would scrap the UK’s human rights law to enable the mass deportation of illegal migrants, as the government reportedly...

Sir Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure over the small boats crisis after protests outside asylum hotels continued over the bank holiday weekend. A poll...

New laws to reduce the use of short prison sentences and toughen up community punishments are expected to be introduced within weeks. Ministers are...

A new fast-track asylum appeals process will be introduced to speed up the process of deporting people without a right to remain in the...

Mass deportations. Prison camps. Quitting the Refugee Convention and the UN Convention on Torture. A shrug of the shoulders at the idea of the...

Has the government just walked into a giant political elephant trap by attempting to reverse the Epping hotel ruling? Already on the back foot...

A weekend of protests and counter-protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers began last night, with dozens expected today. Saturday is set to see more...

Has the government just walked into a giant political elephant trap by attempting to reverse the Epping hotel ruling? Already on the back foot...

The government has taken the first step in appealing a court’s decision that asylum seekers cannot be housed in an Essex hotel. The Home...

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The UK government won’t find much in the latest dump of migration data to back up its claim that it is restoring order to...

The government borrowed the least amount of money in three years last month, official figures showed, in a surprise bout of good news for...

Two Labour-run councils have said they are considering legal action to stop the use of hotels to house migrants in their areas after Epping...

A row has broken out between the Tories and Reform about previous comments on migrant hotels, so who said what and when? At the...

A High Court judge ruled that ministers can’t use a hotel to house asylum seekers in Epping on Tuesday. The question now is where...

The Observer’s editor-in-chief has called for the BBC to be “put beyond the reach of politicians” – and has compared the fight for survival...