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Conservative Home10 Jul 2026

Blake Stephenson: Britain should not gamble its borders on at home English tests

English language testing is one of the many tools the Home Office must deploy to ensure our immigration processes are robust. My recent recommendation: is that the UK Government should not move to remote and digital-by-default English language testing for visas. The post Blake Stephenson: Britain should not gamble its borders on at home English tests appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics9 Jul 2026

Fury as Pakistan refusal to take back sick rapist sparks calls to end £114m aid from UK

Whistleblower Maggie Oliver branded Shabana Mahmood's decision to close an immigration loophole as "a knee-jerk reaction after the horse has bolted"

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Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Home Office Claims Paying £30 Million to Bring Migrants Across Channel Is “Bearing Down on Small Boat Crossings”

The government has defended its new £30 million contract for a private company to charter boats and crew and pick up people trying to cross the Channel. Costs up by twelve times since 2022… After Martin Daubney blasted the gargantuan contract on GB News, the Home Office said: “We are modernising our fleet to intercept…

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Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Pakistan Escalates Row Over Rochdale Rape Gang Leader’s Deportation

The government thinks that Pakistan will refuse to take Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed back, despite Shabana Mahmood briefing that she has discovered a workaround for the loophole that prevents his deportation. Will Labour get heavy-handed with the Pakistani government… The Times reports that Pakistan is demanding the extradition of two political dissidents from…

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

Mahmood to close loophole blocking deportation of Rochdale grooming gang ringleader

Home secretary expected to amend Immigration Act but hurdles remain if Pakistan continues to refuse to take Shabir Ahmed back Shabana Mahmood is planning to change the law so the government can move towards deporting the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang. The home secretary is expected to amend the 1971 Immigration Act, which prevents Shabir Ahmed from being removed from Britain. Continue reading...

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BBC Politics8 Jul 2026

UK to change law so ringleader of Rochdale grooming gang can be deported

The home secretary is expected to set out on Monday how she plans to amend the 1971 Immigration Act.

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BBC Politics8 Jul 2026

UK to change law so ringleader of Rochdale grooming gang can be deported

The home secretary is expected to set out on Monday how she plans to amend the 1971 Immigration Act.

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Express Politics8 Jul 2026

New 10 year rule could see some migrants get 'special treatment'

The Home Secretary spoke to a committee in Parliament about what could happen.

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

Asylum seeker in UK as part of ‘one in, one out’ scheme says it is unfair on those deported

Man flown from France as part of legal entry programme decries effect on others ‘who may have a similar case’ An asylum seeker brought to the UK by the Home Office has said it feels unjust that he was allowed into the country only because someone else was deported. The individual benefited from the “one in” part of the controversial “one in, one out” scheme, where one asylum seeker who reached the UK on a small boat is forcibly returned to France in exchange for another being brought legally to

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The Guardian Politics7 Jul 2026

Nigel Farage rejects scrutiny from UK parliament and calls a ‘people v establishment’ byelection

Reform UK leader says he has ‘never been angrier’ – but opposition leaders accuse him of a ‘desperate stunt’ Flanked by union jack flags, with a spectacular view of the City of London behind him, Nigel Farage said he had “never been angrier”. In an address that was billed as a “statement on my future in public life”, the leader of Reform UK, the rightwing, anti-immigration party that remains ahead in most national polls but which has been dipping recently, said he would not tolerate any more of

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Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

Plaid Cymru Government Maintains £1 Million Subsidy Scheme for Asylum Immigration Advisers

Plaid Cymru – the new government of Wales – is maintaining a large subsidy for immigration advice for migrants despite the policy area never having been devolved. Has anyone checked in on Scotland’s “embassies” as well? The Welsh government launched an immigration legal support scheme in April this year, which gives out a maximum subsidy…

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Guido Fawkes6 Jul 2026

EXC: Home Office Pays Firm £30 Million for Migrants to Be Picked up in Channel

There was a furore in 2022 when the Guardian revealed that the Home Office had paid a private company £2.5 million to charter boats and crew to pick up people trying to cross the Channel. That number has since ballooned… Mahmood’s Home Office is four years later paying £30 million to the same company –…

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