Partners and spouses are being kept apart by Home Office delays in processing revised versions of entry permits to BritainA British woman has told how she had to separate her six-year-old son from his French father because post-Brexit rules prohibited …
France accuses Patel of blackmail in row over Channel migrants
Interior minister says UK plans to return boats of vulnerable people would not be acceptedThe British home secretary, Priti Patel, has been accused by France’s interior minister of plotting “financial blackmail” and a violation of international maritim…
‘I am in the same boat’: anger and empathy greets Dungeness migrant arrivals
Hundreds of migrants are risking their lives once again to reach English shores, but a polarised reception awaits themThere were shouts of “lawbreakers” and “go home” as 15 migrants staggered on to the shingle of Dungeness beach in Kent, greeted by a h…
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…
Afghan failures show ‘global Britain’ is just an empty slogan | Letters
Mark Newbury highlights the lack of support for refugees, David Beswick writes of the mismanagement of Afghanistan evacuations and Dr Richard Carter draws attention to the UK’s diminishing influenceNesrine Malik’s excellent article (For Afghan refugees…
Hilary Mantel: I am ashamed to live in nation that elected this government
Double Booker prize winner tells La Repubblica she may take Irish citizenship to feel European againHilary Mantel has said she feels “ashamed” by the UK government’s treatment of migrants and asylum seekers and is intending to become an Irish citizen t…
One out of 125 embassy guards promised help to leave Afghanistan made it to UK
Exclusive: Foreign Office said guards would be given right to come to Britain, but evacuation attempt failedJust one of the team of 125 British embassy guards who were promised help to leave Afghanistan by the Foreign Office has made it to the UK.Faiz …
A tale of two towns: Rochdale and Braintree expose UK’s uneven asylum system
Relatively wealthy Braintree has supported just one asylum seeker in recent months while deprived Rochdale hosted 734Labour councils house eight times as many asylum seekers as Tory areas, analysis findsSituated in the heart of rural Essex, Braintree o…
Home Office spent almost £9m on deportation charter flights in 2020
At least 828 people were removed on charter flights last year, more than double the number removed in 2019The Home Office spent almost £9m on deportation charter flights last year, the Guardian has learned, including more than £500,000 for planes that …
‘I feel helpless, useless and hopeless’: diary of an Afghan evacuee
Student, English teacher and journalist Mursal Rasa Jamili, 23, was evacuated to the UK from Kabul with her two sistersMursal Rasa Jamili, a 23-year-old final-year university student, English teacher and journalist in Kabul, was evacuated to the UK wit…