6 d. ago Labour MP warns of huge Commons revolt against scrapping jury trials as he brands David Lammy a 'liar' and 'stark raving barmy'

The Justice Secretary this week unveiled proposals to set up so-called 'swift courts' in England and Wales, where cases will be heard by a judge alone.

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7 d. ago Reeves hit with Labour revolt on farms tax raid as backlash mounts against Budget

A slew of MPs pleaded with the government to review its inheritance tax assault as the fiscal package went through the Commons last night.

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8 d. ago Furious Labour MPs compare David Lammy to PUTIN as he says right to trial by jury will be abolished for all but most serious crimes in 'chilling' assault on ancient liberties

David Lammy was assailed from all sides as he declared that tens of thousands of defendants will be deprived of the 800-year-old right in a desperate bid to cut a massive backlog of cases.

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9 d. ago Scottish Labour MPs 'could spearhead revolt to oust Keir Starmer' as they fear wipeout at hands of SNP and Reform UK at Holyrood elections in May

The Prime Minister has been put on notice of a leadership challenge after being told he's 'very unpopular' among voters in Scotland.

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1 week ago Will Angela Rayner join workers' rights revolt against Starmer? Shaken PM braces for ex

Keir Starmer faces fury for breaking another manifesto pledge after abruptly abandoning 'day one' rights to sue for unfair dismissal last night.

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1 week ago Starmer faces Labour revolt over axing ‘day one’ workers’ rights reforms in manifesto breach

Fury among Labour backbenchersas announcement comes day after Government accused of another manifesto breach over Budget tax rises for working people

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1 week ago Asylum seeker who entered illegally on small boat twice is hit with 7 word statement from judge

A asylum seeker has been jailed after crossing the channel on a small boat on two separate occasions

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2 w. ago Migrants to UK will not get benefits until becoming citizens under new plans

Refugee Council says plans would create ‘expensive bureaucracy’ and keep people in limboUK politics live –latest updatesPeople who migrate to the UK will be eligible for benefits and social housing only when they become British citizens and those who arrive by small boats could wait up to 30 years for long-term residency under new plans outlined by the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood.The plans could result in migrants only becoming eligible for benefits and social housing if they first become British citizens, rather than upon being granted settlement as is currently the case. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Some migrants will have to wait up to 30 years to get settled status under new immigration 'crackdown'

Illegal migrants who bring successful human rights claims to dodge deportation will be forced to wait 30 years to secure permanent leave to stay in Britain.

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2 w. ago Shabana Mahmood considering giving migrants 'big increase' in payments to return to their home countries

Mahmood set out plans to overhaul the asylum system on Monday, during which she said the offer of financial packages to encourage arrivals to go home voluntarily would continue.

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2 w. ago Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests

Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodusUp to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests.Keir Starmer has vowed to curb net migration, with plans to force migrants to wait as long as 10 years to apply to settle in the UK instead of automatically gaining settled status after five years. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago French police plan to use nets to stop small boats ‘risks turning Channel into a graveyard’

France has been under mounting pressure from the UK to intercept migrant vessels at sea amid growing public anger over illegal migration

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3 w. ago Let us try safe, legal routes before putting up nets to stop the boats

Editorial: Tough action is needed to bring order to the asylum system, but that cannot include putting migrants’ lives at even greater risk

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3 w. ago ‘Pictures unite!’: how pop music fell in love with socialist infographics

When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education. As a new exhibition shows, it ended up influencing pop art, graphic design and electronic musicians from Kraftwerk to OMDWhen Otto Neurath died in Oxford some 80 years ago, far away from his native Vienna, he was still finding his feet in exile. Like many a Jewish refugee, the economist, philosopher and sociologist had been interned as a suspected enemy alien on the Isle of Man, along with his third wife and close collaborator Marie Reidemeister, having chanced a last-minute life-saving escape from their interim hideout in the Netherlands across the Channel in a rickety boat in 1940.Thanks to Neurath’s pioneering use of pictorial statistics – or “Isotypes” as Reidemeister called them, an acronym for “International System of Typographic Picture Education” – he left behind an enormous legacy in the arts and social sciences: it is the language through which we decode and an...

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3 w. ago French police to use nets to stop small boat migrants crossing Channel

New tactics to stop boats set to be introduced despite warnings there is ‘no way’ to carry out such manoeuvres safely

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3 w. ago Children born in Britain to refugee parents will face deportation under Shabana Mahmood's asylum overhaul

Children born in the UK to refugees and those who have no right to stay would face deportation under plans from Shabana Mahmood - because Britain does not recognise birthright citizenship.

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3 w. ago Britain’s migration crisis: Is Labour’s crackdown targeting the right people?

As Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood faces a Labour revolt over her planned overhaul of the asylum system, Alex Ross looks at how effective the measures would be

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3 w. ago Is Shabana Mahmood’s plan to seize the jewels of asylum seekers a joke? | Zoe Williams

The home secretary’s idea makes her sound so much like a cartoon villain that I initially assumed it couldn’t be true ...You can’t react to every piece of flotsam on the unending tide of nastiness that emanates from Westminster on the subject of immigration, or you’ll start to feel like you’re the idiot. Are we surprised that a Labour home secretary would want to remove any prospect of permanent citizenship for all refugees, thereby ending Britain’s standing as a place of sanctuary? Petty, vindictive, counterproductive, narrow-minded, yes, but you could hardly call this surprising.But, finally, a policy arrived that was so out of the normal run of things that I assumed it was a joke – a piece of satire, floated on X by some member of the wokerati, to make Shabana Mahmood sound truly heinous. Apparently, she wanted to seize the jewellery and other valuables to pay for their accommodation.Deploying exaggeration to underscore how much like a cartoon villain a politician sounds is a lit...

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3 w. ago Asylum changes seek to use children as a weapon, says Labour peer Alf Dubs

Dubs, who was a child refugee, says Shabana Mahmood’s ‘shabby’ plans will increase community tensionsUK politics live – latest updatesThe home secretary is seeking “to use children as a weapon” in her changes to the asylum system, a veteran Labour peer who came to Britain as a child refugee has said.Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK aged six in 1939 fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, described Shabana Mahmood’s proposals as “a shabby thing”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Labour disintegrates on immigration as gleeful Greens surge in the polls and dozens of Starmer's MPs turn on him

Dozens of backbenchers look set to try to block Shabana Mahmood's plans despite her pleading that they are the only way to restore public faith and stop Reform.

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