‘Taking back control’ turns out to be staggeringly expensive. That’s something to mull over as budget day approachesEvery 100,000 immigrants lost to the UK costs the treasury £7bn, according to the Office for Budget...
Read MoreShe says a lack of fairness can make ‘people turn inwards’Healey vows to stick to fiscal rules in budget built on hopeLisa O’Carroll is a senior Guardian correspondent.The head of the SDLP, Claire Hanna, has called for an...
Read MoreExclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossingsUK politics live – latest updatesShabana Mahmood will announce a new legal route for...
Read MoreWork and pensions secretary says the current system is flawed because it consigns too many people to a life on benefits when they would be better off working‘I can deliver’: Burnham pledges radical change on eve of Labour...
Read MoreResolution Foundation says households outside London are paying hundreds of pounds a year more in council tax than they would be under a fair systemTim Shipman has written about what will be coming up at the Labour conference...
Read MoreHundreds of protesters turned out at Gosport thinking that asylum seekers were arriving thereSix people have been arrested after anti-migrant protesters gathered at a marina in Hampshire in the mistaken belief that a small boat...
Read MoreKey questions answered about scheme that has sent more than 25,000 people to countries that are not their ownBanished: Trump’s secret deportation dealsFreedom oppressed: journalists caught up in Trump crackdownSince returning to...
Read MoreThe fact that some migrants pay people smugglers thousands of pounds makes them well off, MP claimsAsylum seekers who arrive on small boats across the Channel are “wealthy men” who do not deserve the help of the British state,...
Read MoreThousands of children in state care were evacuated when Russia invaded. Kyiv wants them back – but many resistWhen he first arrived in his new home in a small village in the Italian Alps in March 2022, 15-year-old Denys* says he...
Read MoreHome secretary defends cost, saying it is about the same or cheaper than putting someone up in a hotel for a yearThe government’s “one in, one out” deal is costing about £56,000 for every person sent back to France, Shabana...
Read MoreParty denies wrongdoing after Scotland Yard confirms it is investigating allegations broadcast by Channel 4 after undercover stingAlex Burghart, the deputy Tory leader, was giving interviews this morning. On Israel, he opened up...
Read MoreShallah, Fatimah and Maahi are among hundreds of thousands of Afghan women and girls deported from Iran and Pakistan in the past year to a life of severe restrictionsIt was a warm summer afternoon on 15 August 2021 when the...
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