64 m. ago Keir Starmer weighs up compulsory ID cards to stop small boats

Keir Starmer is weighing up bringing in digital ID cards in a bid to tackle illegal working, No10 suggested - as he vowed to go 'further and faster' on shutting asylum hotels

Politics

2 h. ago Dwarfed by delivery Britain: Anger as 'monstrous' 60ft tall warehouses are built metres from family homes 'like a cruise ship in our back garden'

Residents in Tyldesley, Wigan, branded the colossal steel frames 'monstrous' as they became the latest structures at a 350,000 sq ft industrial site.

Society

4 h. ago Starmer pushes digital ID cards for ALL after Macron demands action to tackle scourge of illegal working in Britain

Keir Starmer told the Cabinet he would be 'exploring options around digital ID' as part of a wider package of reforms designed to make it harder for illegal migrants to live and work in this country.

Politics

4 h. ago Keir Starmer considering digital ID and housing migrants at old industrial sites

But No 10 stopped short of saying whether it would consider introducing compulsory national identification cards

Events

5 h. ago Starmer considers digital ID rollout in bid to tackle illicit migration

Home Office to send messages following rise in number of people claiming asylum after visas expire

Politics

5 h. ago Starmer considers digital ID rollout in bid to tackle illegal migration

Prime minister looks at new measures to crackdown on illicit working

Events

6 h. ago Channel migrants could be moved to WAREHOUSES as Labour scrambles to close asylum hotels with PM holding emergency talks on how to go 'further and faster' on tackling small boats

Yvette Cooper said the Government was looking at 'military and industrial sites' as 'more appropriate' places to house asylum seekers.

Events

6 h. ago Starmer considering digital ID and housing migrants at old industrial sites

The Prime Minister will host a Tuesday afternoon ministerial meeting after reiterating to his Cabinet that migration is ‘a central issue’.

Events

9 h. ago Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live

Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’Lamb says the Greens are “the antidote to Reform”.That gets a big round of applause.We’re a home for all those people across the country holding their heads in their hands as the Labour government lets them down again and again and again, whether it is switching from the aid budget or from people with disabilities and not bringing in taxes we need.And that is why, in reaction, a new Green wave is sweeping the country as people turn to us.It’s already become a bit of a cliche, but we are really moving into a multi-party system, with the Greens poised to help create the next government.And, like all the best cliches, it has the distinct advantage of also being for true. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Families horrified as 'monstrous' 60ft tall warehouses are built metres from their homes

Residents in Tyldesley, Wigan, branded the colossal steel frames 'monstrous' as they became the latest structures at a 350,000 sq ft industrial site.

Society

19 h. ago The village at war over £300K townhouses for asylum seekers: Furious residents 'were kept in the dark about new arrivals' and fear homes were purposely built for migrants

Residents in a sleepy Suffolk village say the decision to house legal migrants in four brand-new houses worth £270,000 has brought simmering tensions to the surface.

Events

19 h. ago Judge who ordered Epping hotel to stop housing migrants should have considered banning protests instead, Court of Appeal suggests

The court yesterday issued its full judgment on the case of The Bell Hotel in Epping, having overturned a High Court injunction that ordered the removal of asylum seekers.

Events

30 h. ago The rule that allows migrants to bring their families over to Britain and claim access to housing, healthcare and benefits

New arrivals are currently able to ask for relatives to join them in Britain the moment they are granted refugee protection.

Society

32 h. ago Hotel boss REFUSES £3million contract to house asylum seekers: Owner of boutique guesthouse with gold taps in its rooms rejects offer because it is 'not appropriate'

Samuel Leeds has gone viral for refusing to put up asylum seekers at his lavish 26-bedroom Willingham House in the idyllic village of Willingham, in Cambridgeshire.

Economics

52 h. ago Hotels in popular tourist destination of Mallorca could be used to house migrants

Hotels in Mallorca could be used to house migrants in "exceptional circumstances"

Society

3 d. ago Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy | Rowan Williams

Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves?No one in their right mind thinks accommodating asylum seekers in hotels is a good idea. No one in their right mind thinks we should just live with undocumented, life-threatening migration routes into the UK. And no one in their right mind thinks the experiences endured by most migrants could be a rational choice for anyone. Forget for a moment the ludicrous, inflammatory posturing of many who should know better; we ought to be able to begin from these shared acknowledgments.Using hotels for housing vulnerable migrants is the equivalent of what prison reform campaigners have long called warehousing – make sure a problematic group is simply corralled somewhere more or less secure, and hope their issues will somehow sort themselves out. The chaos and under-resourcing of the legal processes involved and the shocking levels of delay mean that the con...

Politics

3 d. ago Target distribution center is so large employees say they spend 30 minutes walking to their station and should be paid for it

Employees paid by the hour working at warehouses in New York state are required to clock in at the entrance of the industrial sites but their pay does not account for the time spent walking into the enormous facilities

Events

3 d. ago Ministers faced with fresh protests and legal battles after asylum hotel ruling

Three appeal judges described the previous judgment as ‘seriously flawed in principle’ and said the hotel could continue to be used to house migrants.

Events

4 d. ago Fears of mass unrest after judges revoke ban on housing migrants at protest

Police forces say they are ‘well prepared’ for new wave of protests as 23 anti-migrant rallies are planned in 23 locations across the UK

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4 d. ago Epping asylum hotel latest: Home Office wins appeal to house migrants at protest

The Court of Appeal found that the temporary injunction issued by the High Court included a ‘number of errors’

Society