Channel boat deaths prompt fresh anger over asylum policy
Hunt is on for survivors after at least six people die, while activists call for more safe and legal routes The government’s controversial asylum policy...
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Calls for safe routes for refugees mount after six more Channel drownings
Lack of safe passage described as ‘moral disgrace’ as helpers say legal routes would end dangerous crossings Calls are mounting in the UK and France...
UK would be outlier with Russia if it left ECHR, Law Society says
Robert Jenrick had said government would do ‘whatever is necessary’ to stop small boat crossings The UK would be an international outlier along with Russia...
UK’s post-Brexit policing pact with EU put at risk by migration laws, say peers
Committee concerned illegal migration legislation will jeopardise sharing with EU of DNA, fingerprinting and criminal records The UK’s post-Brexit policing pact with the EU on...
We need more EU workers, admits leading Tory Brexiter
George Eustice, the former environment secretary, is calling for a reciprocal visa scheme so that under-35s can work across the EU and Britain A leading...
Albania is a ‘safe’ country, cross-party MPs group finds
People who flee to seek sanctuary in UK should not routinely be granted asylum, home affairs select committee report says Albania is a “safe” country...
‘Horror beyond words’: how Channel distress calls were ‘ignored’ 19 times before 2021 disaster
Investigation reveals that understaffed Dover control room was overwhelmed by calls from people in trouble before 27 died at sea • Read more: UK coastguard...
UK coastguard ‘left Channel migrants adrift’ in lead-up to mass drowning
Investigation reveals that at least 440 people appear to have been abandoned in the weeks before the worst Channel disaster in 30 years • Read...
Ukrainian orchestra’s key members refused visas to play in UK
Promoter claims ‘catastrophe’ has cost it more than £88k and accuses British government of hypocrisy Key members of a Ukrainian state orchestra were refused visas...
German band may have been refused UK entry ‘because they have day jobs’
Post-Brexit rules on touring under fire as it emerges Trigger Cut may have been turned away due to not being full-time musicians A German punk...
