Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks during the Conservative Party Spring Forum at Winter Gardens, Blackpool. Picture date: Saturday March 19, 2022.
PRITI PATEL has been sitting on an urgent inspector’s report on small boat crossings since February, it was revealed today.
The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) David Neal told MPs that he submitted the report to the Home Secretary on February 28.
The inspectorate committed to carrying out the report outside of the inspection programme in response to “intelligence and stakeholders’ concerns,” he said during his first appearance on the home affairs select committee.
DIANE ABBOTT MP argues that Labour’s proposals contained in the recent white paper won’t actually bring down immigration numbers or win support from Reform voters — but they will succeed in making politics more nasty and poisonous
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum