Immigration and asylum
April 2026
Two dead and one missing after trying to cross Channel to UK
First fatal incident this year occurred hours after £16.2m ‘stop the boats’ deal agreed between Britain and France
March 2026
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UK to pay France extra £16m in stopgap deal to patrol Channel beaches
To call my part of London ‘Little Tehran’ isn’t quite right
Starmer’s immigration rhetoric follows familiar pattern of bold claims but few results, expert says
Small boats deal between France and UK is on verge of collapse
Fears of increased small boat Channel crossings as UK-French deal nears end
EU offers UK ‘emergency brake’ on youth mobility scheme numbers
- Saturday Opinion cartoonSamuel Ojo on Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms – cartoon
Immigration officers must treat people with respect
Doctors waiting on asylum decisions can work in NHS as Home Office lifts ban
‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE
Six students challenge Home Office visa ban on four countries
‘The UK is saying the same thing as the Taliban’: the women banned from studying in Britain
‘Constant uncertainty’: Mahmood’s ‘earned settlement’ immigration plan has families stuck in limbo
‘This country has been our home’: US family in UK threatened with detention over visa mix-up
More British teenagers stranded abroad as result of new rules on dual nationals
‘One in, one out’ asylum seekers sent to France return to UK in lorries
Starmer plans to ease impact of immigration policy changes after backlash from Labour MPs
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