13 h. ago Migrants 'murder each other as boat breaks down at sea' near Canary Islands after victims were 'accused of witchcraft and supplies ran low'

Migrants found dead near the Canary Islands are believed to have been murdered and thrown overboard after the overcrowded boat broke down at sea. 

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13 h. ago Yvette Cooper fails to guarantee that boat crossings will fall by next year

The home secretary also failed to confirm that migrants will be sent back to France this month as part of the returns agreement, saying she refused to make ‘grand promises’

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32 h. ago Voices: Yvette Cooper’s plans to fix the asylum system won’t work

After a summer of spiralling migrant numbers and protests outside asylum hotels, the home secretary has returned to the Commons with tougher new restrictions – but Labour looks like it’s playing catch-up to Reform, says Emily Sheffield

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33 h. ago Voices: Yvette Cooper’s raft of ideas to fix the asylum system don’t hold water

After a summer of spiralling migrant numbers and protests outside asylum hotels, the home secretary has returned to the Commons with tougher new restrictions – but Labour looks like it’s playing catch-up to Reform, says Emily Sheffield

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40 h. ago Why what's really happening at luxury hotel where Jacob Rees

The former Brexit minister went viral when he was filmed being rebuffed as he tried to investigate suggestions that secluded Winford Manor is now accommodating illegal, small boat migrants.

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45 h. ago Revealed: What's really happening at luxury hotel where Jacob Rees

The former Brexit minister went viral when he was filmed being rebuffed as he tried to investigate suggestions that secluded Winford Manor is now accommodating illegal, small boat migrants.

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61 h. ago Farage and Reform ‘whipping up anger’ on migrants, cabinet minister warns

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson claimed Mr Farage has ‘no interest’ in finding solutions to the migrant crisis and small boats

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3 d. ago Starmer promises action on small boat migrants as pressure mounts on Government

Former lord chancellor Lord Falconer said the Government had to convince people it had an answer to the crisis.

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3 d. ago At least 70 killed after Canary Island migrant boat capsizes off West Africa

The incident is one of the deadliest in recent years

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4 d. ago Voices: Getting rid of the ECHR won’t stop a single boat of migrants

As New Labour grandees unite with Red Wall Labour MPs to call for the European Court of Human Rights to be reformed – legislation that Nigel Farage wants to scrap – Sean O’Grady says the mainstreaming of the view that it is no longer workable or needed is deeply dishonest

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4 d. ago Why are there growing calls for Britain to quit the ECHR – and would it make a difference?

Here, The Independent takes a look at what the ECHR is, why some people think we should quit and why others say leaving may bring more problems than it solves

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6 d. ago French plans to intercept migrant boats at sea are now 'in jeopardy due to political crisis in Paris'

Under current rules, French authorities are prevented from tackling a migrant boat once it has entered the water, unless a vessel is in distress.

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6 d. ago Plan to intercept small boats threatened by potential collapse of French government

The French interior ministry has said it would implement the law change ‘this summer’ but concerns of delays have been raised

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7 d. ago Just like Brexit, Farage is simply telling voters what they want to hear on migration

Nigel Farage laid out details of his plans for mass deportation of migrants as the small boats crisis continues to grow, but The Independent’s political editor David Maddox has heard all the same rhetoric before

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7 d. ago Reform would pay the Taliban to take back migrants, Zia Yusuf admits

The former party chairman said he thinks it is ‘quite reasonable’ to hand money to the regime in order to agree a returns agreement

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7 d. ago Ministers prepare to deport migrants as Reform unveils small boats plan

Reform UK, which has sought to gain from public dissatisfaction about migration, will reveal its plans to tackle the small boats crisis.

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8 d. ago Humanitarian group says Libya's coast guard fired on its vessel in the Mediterranean

A humanitarian group says Libya’s coast guard fired upon its vessel as it searched for a migrant boat in distress in the Mediterranean Sea

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8 d. ago Voices: I visited Hong Kong’s migrant camps in the Eighties – here’s why they should be adopted in the UK

After the Vietnam war, hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived on the shores of Hong Kong – but what initially seemed like an existential crisis for the then British territory ended up being resolved rather swiftly, writes Mary Dejevsky

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8 d. ago Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure over small boat migrants and asylum hotels amid ongoing protests

A poll has suggested that people believe Sir Keir Starmer is failing to grip the problem

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8 d. ago Voices: I visited Hong Kong’s migrant camps in the 80s – here’s why they should be adopted in the UK

After the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived on the shores of Hong Kong – but what initially seemed like an existential crisis for what was then a British territory ended up being resolved rather swiftly, writes Mary Dejevsky

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