Report finds exhausted detainees including young and elderly forced to sleep on tent floors or bus seatsMigrants crossing the Channel in small boats are spending their first night on UK soil in crowded, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, a damning indep…
Priti Patel faces demands for statutory inquiry into murder of Sarah Everard
Labour and SNP say investigation into ‘failures’ of Met police announced by home secretary lacks legal powersPriti Patel is facing demands from opposition politicians to announce a statutory inquiry into failings that allowed a serving Metropolitan pol…
Keith Vaz engaged in ‘sustained and unpleasant bullying’, report finds
Panel chair says ex-MP for Leicester East should be ‘ashamed’ of behaviour that ended woman’s career Keith Vaz, the former Labour minister, engaged in “sustained and unpleasant bullying” towards a parliamentary member of staff, an official report has c…
Tech firms not doing enough to fight terrorism, says Met police chief
Cressida Dick calls for more action to stop online radicalisation and questions push towards end-to-end encryptionThe UK most senior police officer has accused technology firms of failing to identify, monitor and report the activity of terrorists, in a…
Priti Patel to send boats carrying migrants to UK back across Channel
Border Force is being trained on ‘turn-around’ tactics but France warns plan could endanger livesPriti Patel is preparing to send back small boats carrying migrants in the Channel despite warnings from the French authorities that it could endanger live…
Tory MPs urge Priti Patel to return migrants who attempt to enter UK illegally
Suggestion to home secretary condemned as breach of UN convention on human rightsConservative MPs have urged the home secretary, Priti Patel, to send back immediately anyone including children who boards an illegal crossing of the Channel from France.T…