Judges have received extra training to ensure asylum seekers can be removed to Rwanda “without delay”, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has revealed. More than 100 additional court staff have also been recruited and 25 hearing rooms have been equipped with remote camera
The former home of the Red Arrows and the Dambusters, RAF Scampton, has unexploded ordnance and ground gases on its site. This is despite it being earmarked to house 2,000 asylum seekers, a minister has claimed. Housing minister Lee Rowley has written
The number of asylum seekers in hotels has fallen by just seven since the Prime Minister pledged to move them out. Home Office figures show 45,768 asylum seekers are still housed in expensive hotel accommodation. It means the figure has barely changed
The Archbishop of Canterbury has “turned a blind eye” to the widespread abuse of baptisms by asylum seekers in Britain, a whistleblowing priest has suggested. Rev Matthew Firth, a former Church of England priest, accused Justin Welby of an “unwillingness to be
The Swiss people are set to be offered a referendum on immigration after a petition calling for the population not to go above 10 million by 2050 reached 100,000 signatures. In a rare expression of direct action the people of the landlocked
James Cleverly has told Scotland and Wales to house more asylum seekers. In letters to Humza Yousaf and Mark Drakeford, the Home Secretary said Scotland and Wales give homes to around half as many migrants as England. He said that while England
A total of forty asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge are converting to Christianity, according to a church elder. The disclosure comes amid fears that migrants are changing their religion in order to stay in the UK. Church elder and consultant
Guards have already undergone special training programmes to deal with “disruptive” people. Security officials are also preparing for the prospect of demonstrations by campaigners outside an airbase in an attempt to stop flights, the Times said. It is estimated that five officers
Almost 6,000 Channel migrants have vanished after their asylum applications were withdrawn, it has emerged. The Home Office revealed they are “urgently” trying to “re-establish” contact with 5,598 failed asylum seekers. Officials believe they are still in the UK and they are
Ministers last year touted accommodation vessels as a way of cutting the cost of housing migrants in hotels, which has hit £8 million a day. But it is understood that efforts to secure new barges have been abandoned amid struggles to find