13 h. ago ‘We don’t get to discriminate’: How a Raleigh ministry decided to help resettle Afrikaners

Marc Wyatt, director of Welcome House Raleigh, a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, received a call recently from the North Carolina field office of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants asking if he could help furnish two apartments for three newly arrived refugees, among the 59 who arrived in the U.S. last week from South Africa

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58 h. ago Net migration data due after Starmer’s warning on ‘island of strangers’

The Office for National Statistics will give its first estimate of net migration for the 12 months to December 2024.

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4 d. ago Starmer faces Labour MPs amid brewing disquiet over benefits cuts

The Prime Minister is said to have ‘acknowledged that MPs were having to face incredibly tough decisions’ as he met backbenchers.

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4 d. ago Deal with EU on defence ‘first step’ to further cooperation, minister says

Defence Secretary John Healey says the agreement opens the door to more collaboration as MPs hear the amount the UK will pay is still to be decided.

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5 d. ago UK’s largest natural gas storage facility to shut down without government help

Centrica has said it remains in talks with ministers about Government cooperation to expand and revamp its Rough facility.

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8 d. ago UK asking other countries to host ‘return hubs’ for refused asylum seekers, Starmer confirms – UK politics live

PM on trip to announce increased cooperation against people smugglers alongside Albania’s prime minister, Edi RamaAll Commons Speakers, at least for the past 30 years, have complained about the government making major announcements to the media first, and not to parliament first. But rarely have any of them sounded quite as furious about this as Lindsay Hoyle, who this morning delivered an extended reprimand to the government about this at the start of an urgent question.The UQ was about plans to limit the use of prison recall – something announced by the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, at a press conference yesterday, while the Commons was still sitting. After pointing this out, and reminding MPs that details of the immigration white paper were given to the media extensively, long before the ministerial statement about it was delivered in the Commons on Monday, Hoyle went on to imply that, as well as regularly breaking the ministerial code, ministers were also guilty of hypocri...

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1 week ago Starmer ‘completely rejects’ claims he echoed Enoch Powell in migration speech

The Prime Minister warned the UK risked becoming an ‘island of strangers’ if migration controls were not tightened.

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1 week ago Better English standards and decade in UK to be demanded before citizenship

Sir Keir Starmer will promise to ‘tighten up’ all elements of the system.

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1 week ago Starmer to pledge ‘every area’ of immigration system ‘tightened up’

Migrants will be told they need to spend a decade in the UK before they can apply for citizenship and English language requirements will increased.

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1 week ago Immigration crackdown as Labour panics over Reform: Yvette Cooper vows tougher visa rules and deportation for ANY crime

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper insisted immigration will fall 'substantially' as she prepares to publish a white paper, with Labour panicking over Reform.

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