Migrants fighting deportation from the UK were handed more than £70m in legal aid funded by the British taxpayer across the last five years. Solicitors and lawyers bills totalled £71m between 2019 and 2023 costing folk living in the UK an average
British taxpayers are to cough up £1 million for a new deal helping Libya stop migrants from crossing the Mediterranean. The new pioneering deal is the latest scheme as the Government continues its hope of stopping small boat crossings into Britain. Immigration
Rishi Sunak is under growing pressure to end the use of hotels for Channel migrants as new figures have revealed more than 45,000 are still living in taxpayer-funded rooms. New Home Office figures show 45,434 asylum seekers are being accommodated in venues
Taxpayers forked out over £260,000 for a simple mesh netting to be installed in a Parliamentary office building after a glass roof panel fractured and covered staff in rainwater last year. After the embarrassing incident in the ‘Mother of Parliaments’, the Commons
A major London Underground station will be closed for seven months for an extensive makeover. Colindale station, on the Edgware branch of the Northern line between Burnt Oak and Hendon Central stations, will shut from this summer for important works, reports My
The Government has been slammed for presiding over a taxpayer farce, after it emerged it has given over £200 million to charities that are now lobbying against the Rwanda Bill. In total, £209 million have been given to charities demanding the House
Cabinet Office minister Esther McVey is concerned they may be spending “tens of thousands of working hours” on staff “networks”. The civil service says the networks allow “underrepresented groups to feel a sense of community and be supported”. Staff networks support minorities,
The French government has gone cap in hand to the British taxpayer to cover the costs of nuclear power projects undertaken by the energy company EDF in the UK, according to a French official. The official has told the Financial Times that
Local councils across the UK have been accused of wasting taxpayers’ money after they spent almost £350,000 on sending staff to lavish awards dinners. An audit has revealed one council sent nearly 50 members of staff to a dinner celebrating its work,
Downing Street said taxpayers would benefit once flights to the African nation get underway. The cost of processing and housing asylum seekers in hotels has hit £8 million a day. But the Prime Minister’s deputy spokesperson said the deterrent scheme will “put