More than 1,000 migrants arrived in the UK in small boats on Saturday – just as new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood was ordered to ‘go up a gear’ to stop them. On her first day she was confronted with ...

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A migration expert has revealed how Brexit is making the small boats crisis worse. Record numbers of asylum seekers have crossed the English Channel from France in 2025 – with more than 1,000 arriving ...

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Mohamed Kamara stands by his single bed behind a small chest of drawers on which he has bags of sweets, fruit and a bottle of soft drink. He lives in a modest terraced house a mile from the town ...

There has been further disruption across London today as the RMT union strike rolls continues. With almost all Tube lines entirely suspended - along with the Docklands Light Railway, which is ...

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth insists America’s newly christened “Department of War” is really all about promoting peace - because nothing says serenity like blowing up boats in Venezuela. “Those ...

Leaving the European Convention on Human rights would undo the government’s progress to stop the small boat crossings, the attorney general said today. In his debut appearance before the House of ...

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The rights of British people “will reign supreme” under a Reform government, Zia Yusuf has declared. The new policy chief for Reform UK told the party conference that under Nigel Farage as prime ...

A boat carrying Greta Thunberg was last night set on fire as it headed towards Gaza on an aid mission. Family Boat - transporting Greta and some 350 other activists and aid workers - was attacked by a ...