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‘We are dying little by little here’: asylum seekers at mercy of Home Office hotel closures

Legal challenges launched over accommodation ‘adequacy’ as UK government closes more asylum hotels Huda and her two children aged 10 and 12 had been living in two rooms in a London hotel for six months when they were told with just a few days’ notice they would be moved. The 41-year-old engineering graduate from Tunisia fled death threats from extended family and is waiting for an asylum application to be processed. The Home Office had decided that Staycity, the hotel the family was staying in,

Nigel Farage major security update after Ann Widdecombe's 'murder'

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said she will be assessing security advice for former MPs amid Reform UK's concerns about the safety of the Party's MPs

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Ann Widdecombe supporters with same views 'frightened to death' - 'we'll all be killed'

EXCLUSIVE: Followers who are mourning the Reform UK spokesperson have lashed out at those who have been 'enjoying' her death.

Tice finally gauges the mood on the death of Ann Widdecombe | John Crace

After a wild attack on the media, Reform’s deputy leader joins other MPs in the Commons offering tributes rather than speculation This is the third murder of either a sitting or former MP that I’ve covered in the last 10 years. It doesn’t get any easier or less shocking. Every death diminishes us all. The least you would hope is for politicians to behave with dignity. To set an example. For those who knew Ann Widdecombe to express their personal loss, for party leaders and ministers to convey th

Mahmood offers Farage security meeting after Ann Widdecombe’s death

Home secretary insists all MPs treated equally but that security of former MPs and non-Westminster politicians is a concern Shabana Mahmood has offered Nigel Farage a personal meeting with the Home Office unit that works on security for high-profile politicians, insisting all MPs are treated equally in how they are offered protection. Addressing the Commons after the death of Ann Widdecombe, the Reform spokesperson whose body was found with serious injuries by the ambulance service at her home i

The Guardian view on Shabir Ahmed: changing the law to deport one man will not win back the public’s trust | Editorial

Grooming gang victims have been treated appallingly and are rightly angry. But the loss of confidence in the criminal justice system goes wider The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is not personally responsible for the mess that the government finds itself in with regard to the release from prison of Shabir Ahmed, who was a ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, earlier this month. Ahmed, who has spent most of his life in the UK, was stripped of British citizenship soon after his conviction f

Ann Widdecombe: Labour MP issues grovelling apology after deleting Nigel Farage tweet

The Labour minister accused Nigel Farage and his 'gang of bin men' of 'faux outrage' following the suspected murder of Reform spokesperson Ann Widdecombe.

Reform UK triggers row over MPs’ safety – podcast

After Ann Widdecombe’s murder, Reform UK has criticised the Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle and suggested its MPs are not given enough security. Pippa Crerar tells Kiran Stacey what Hoyle’s team have been telling her Please keep sending your comments and questions to Pippa and Kiran at politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com Please follow and subscribe to the Politics Weekly YouTube channel here Continue reading...

Shabana Mahmood responds to Nigel Farage's fury over Reform security fears

The Home Secretary offered Reform UK's leader an olive branch following the murder of former MP Ann Widdecombe.

Count Binface represents the Silly Sausage Britain I know and love | Sofie Jenkinson

Mr Blobby, the Liz Truss lettuce, Boaty McBoatface … the Clacton hopeful is part of a rich tradition – and a reminder that it’s laughter that defines us, not hate Nigel Farage’s pointless byelection in Clacton, in which he will stand against Count Binface, has inadvertently pitted two versions of Britain against one another. In one corner we have those who will argue that we are divided, cynical and jaded, that Britain isn’t what it once was and there is little to celebrate. And in the other cor

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