16 h. ago Gray must quit! Fury over SNP minister's limo trip to the pub

Scotland's Health Secretary is facing calls to quit as his position is 'untenable' after it emerged he used a taxpayer-funded limo to travel to a pub.

Politics

25 h. ago SNP minister Neil Gray in fresh 'Limogate' scandal after being chauffeured to pub before Aberdeen game

Gray was driven in a taxpayer-funded limo to the Brig O’Don pub in Aberdeen before travelling to Pittodrie for a game against Livingston.

Politics

39 h. ago Chauffeured... to the PUB! SNP Health Secretary Neil Gray in fresh 'limogate' storm

Health Secretary Neil Gray stated he used a taxpayer-funded limo to travel to a personal address - but was actually chauffeured to the pub.

Society

55 h. ago Milestones of Belonging: From asylum seeker to civil servant in Scotland

Too often, the public conversation about refugees is dominated by fear or numbers

Events

2 d. ago Asylum seeker hotels to be scrapped by end of Parliament, announces Chancellor

Cost of asylum accommodation set to be more than three times higher than previously estimated - at £15.3 billion over 10 years

Politics

2 d. ago Spending Review 2025 LIVE: Rachel Reeves pledges billions more for NHS and social housing... but Met police cash row looms

Chancellor announces extra £29 billion per year for the NHS and vows to end use of asylum seeker hotels

Economics

3 d. ago Government to end use of hotels for asylum seekers – Chancellor

Rachel Reeves set out how funding will be provided to cut the asylum backlog and save taxpayers billions of pounds.

Politics

6 d. ago Asylum seeker 'who recruited child soldiers' wins appeal to stay in Britain despite being refused refugee status in France because he's an alleged war criminal

The Sri Lankan, who remains unnamed after he was granted anonymity, faces claims he 'enlisted children under the age of 15' to separatist terrorist group Tamil Tigers.

Events

6 d. ago Scott Morrison sought advice to obstruct Nauru asylum seekers from accessing abortions, documents reveal

Advocate claims Abbott government was concerned asylum seekers and refugees were using medical transfers as a back door to get into AustraliaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastScott Morrison overrode medical advice in the case of an asylum seeker in offshore detention trying to access an abortion, and had previously sought advice that would effectively prevent access to terminations entirely, ministerial advice reveals.Documents released under freedom of information laws show Morrison, in 2014 as immigration minister, had sought advice to deny the transfer of women to a hospital on the Australian mainland to access termination services before 20 weeks’ gestation. Continue reading...

Events

6 d. ago Free needles to help prisoners take Class A drugs behind bars? The latest solution to Scotland's drug death crisis from taxpayer

Free needles and vapes should be handed out to prisoners so they can take Class A drugs in a safer way behind bars, a majority taxpayer-funded group has claimed.

Events

6 d. ago Labour struggling to slash 'unsustainable' foreign aid spending on asylum hotels, despite vow to end practice

The Government is spending £2.2 billion of overseas development funds to house migrants

Events

8 d. ago Illegal migrant criminals are now paying $2,000 to be smuggled OUT of the US by Mexican gangs

Romanian gang members now face losing everything if they are caught by enforcement agents, with increasing numbers of migrants being picked off the street and deported.

Events

8 d. ago The small boat migrant trying to smuggle himself OUT of Britain: Afghan chronicles his life of 'depression, isolation and poverty' in the UK after crossing the Channel in 2024

Zahir has tried to sneak into HGVs leaving the Port of Dover four times in a desperate attempt to relocate to Germany but failed each time and now sleeps in a London park.

Events

2 w. ago Immigration court ruled a Sudanese asylum seeker with a deep voice and 'very hairy legs' was a child as physical attributes are 'not a useful indicator for age'

The decision is said to have overruled a Home Office assessment who claimed his physical appearance 'strongly suggested' he was 'over 18' and that he was likely to be around 24.

Events

2 w. ago Kemi Badenoch takes aim at Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer for 'race to the bottom' over welfare handouts as Tory leader accuses rivals of asking taxpayers to 'fund unlimited child support for others'

In a feisty attack on the Reform and Labour leaders, Mrs Badenoch said the pair believed in getting taxpayers to fund 'unlimited child support for others' by scrapping the two-child benefit cap.

Economics

2 w. ago Hacker who beamed AI images of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet was working during taxpayer

Iowa Republican Senator says the stunt from a federal agency has become ‘poster child for why taxpayer-funded union time needs to end’

Economics

2 w. ago Repeated failings at migrant hotel where asylum seeker killed himself exposed

Special report: Staff at hotel were ‘not appropriately trained’ and Home Office officials didn’t know who was providing crucial services

Events

2 w. ago Freeze frame! David Lammy snaps an Arctic selfie on taxpayer

Mr Lammy boarded a boat with Norway's foreign minister Espen Barth Eide to view a melting glacier in Svalbard. He is on a three-day tour to Norway and Iceland.

Economics

2 w. ago London council considers legal action against Home Office over £5m asylum seeker bill

Hillingdon council said it is supporting an increasing number of migrants who have been evicted from hotels

Economics

2 w. ago Syrian asylum seeker who killed three people and wounded ten others in knife rampage at 'festival of diversity' after he was slated for deportation pleads guilty at German court

Issa Al Hasan, 27, made the confession at the start of his trial, held under tight security at the higher regional court in Duesseldorf on Tuesday.

Events