4 d. ago Labour is expelling foreign criminals from UK at faster rate than Tories did

The Labour government is expelling foreign criminals from the UK at a faster rate than the Tories did - the Home Office reports having deported more than 2,925 foreign criminals since the election

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5 d. ago Buying a house is now 'just as affordable' as before the pandemic

Average earnings have climbed at a much faster rate than house prices, according to the Office for National Statistics

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1 week ago Premier League stars 'to be deported' under 'ludicrous' Tory immigration plan

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch wants to change the law so all foreign nationals in the UK who receive a criminal conviction, regardless of sentence length, would be deported

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1 week ago Albanian who tried to enter Britain illegally four times before being locked up for cannabis farming avoids deportation after judge rules he is not a 'foreign criminal'

Erind Koka, 33, came into the country unlawfully on a lorry in October 2019 after seven years of attempting to do so.

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2 w. ago Wes Streeting's former aide refuses to quit as Labour councillor despite admitting exposing himself to 13

Sam Gould, 33, was fired as a constituency caseworker by the Health Secretary and expelled by Labour after he pleaded guilty to two charges of indecent exposure in court last week.

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3 w. ago Conservatives push legal changes to allow all foreign criminals to be removed from the UK

The proposals would eradicate a threshold, currently set out in the law, which says foreign offenders handed a 12-month jail term or more should face removal.

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3 w. ago Tories announce policy to deport all foreign nationals with criminal convictions

Policy would apply to those seeking asylum as well as anyone who had been charged with or convicted of immigration offencesAll foreign nationals in the UK who receive a criminal conviction would be deported under a new Conservative party policy. The Tory plan would introduce an amendment to the government’s borders bill that would remove the current threshold, in which foreign criminals are only removed after being handed a prison sentence of one year.The party hopes this amendment, which would need support from Labour MPs, would also make it easier for the government to deport foreign offenders by ending exceptions that had been granted by the European court of human rights. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Foreign criminals awaiting deportation ‘could be made to wear electronic tags’

A Government spokesperson has said that ministers are ‘committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities’.

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4 w. ago Deportation of foreign criminals in English and Welsh jails to be sped up with new £5million immigration unit

As part of the taskforce, specialist frontline staff will be sent to 80 jails in a bid to remove those with no right to stay and to ease the current capacity crisis.

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4 w. ago Foreign criminals in Welsh jails to be deported by new 'crack squad'

'It cannot be right for British taxpayers to foot the bill for jailing foreign criminals who have brought misery to our communities,' said Lord James Timpson

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4 w. ago Foreign criminals to be deported faster with new ‘immigration crack squad’

A £5 million investment will see specialist frontline staff sent to 80 jails in a bid to ease the current capacity crisis.

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