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Express Politics8 Mar 2026

Backbench MPs draw up bombshell plan to stop small boats in new headache for Starmer

Bassetlaw's Jo White says Red Wall MPs want to see an end to small boat crossings.

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Express Politics5 Mar 2026

Staggering £40,000 offer to illegal migrants is a prize to cross Channel, Labour told

The Home Secretary, unveiling radical reforms to the UK's crumbling asylum system, offered 150 families living in hotels the "staggering" sum to voluntarily leave the UK.

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The Guardian Politics4 Mar 2026

UK’s partial study visa ban ‘will drive people to small boats’, campaigners say

Ban affecting Sudan, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Cameroon will mean more people make Channel crossings, charity says A new ban on students coming to the UK from four countries where there is war and human rights abuses will drive more people use small boats, campaigners have warned. The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, announced a bar on student visas from Sudan, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Cameroon on Tuesday evening. It will come into force on 26 March. Continue reading...

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Express Politics3 Mar 2026

Outrage as France dishes out lifejackets to illegal migrants on small boats

Asylum seekers charged through the water at Gravelines and bundled onto a dinghy, which had travelled down the coast

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Express Politics3 Mar 2026

Migrants seen attempting to cross Channel in small boats after record day

People have been pictured attempting to make the perilous journey from France today.

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BBC Politics26 Feb 2026

UK asylum claims drop slightly in 2025 as small boat arrivals rise by 13%

Some 100,625 people claimed asylum in the year to December and about 40% of these arrived by small boats, figures show.

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Guido Fawkes26 Feb 2026

605 Small Boat Migrants Arrive in One Day

New figures from the Home Office confirm that 605 migrants arrived to Britain on ten small boats yesterday. The highest single-day figure of 2026 so far in the sunshine and low winds…

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BBC Politics26 Feb 2026

UK asylum claims drop slightly in 2025 as small boat arrivals rise by 13%

Some 100,625 people claimed asylum in the year to December and about 40% of these arrived by small boats, figures show.

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The Guardian Politics25 Feb 2026

Great news! Bookies think Labour can win the next election. Bad news! It’s down to Elon Musk | Zoe Williams

The Reform vote is being eaten into by the Musk-backed Restore Britain, led by Rupert Lowe. I fear that Labour may read the wrong message from all this It’s just one bookie and it’s just one February day in the week of a chaotic byelection, but it’s happened: for the first time in 18 months, Star Sports has staked Labour as most likely to win the general election. “Keir Starmer’s party have been in the ascendency in the market,” said its head of betting, William Kedjanyi, “shortening into 13/8 f

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Conservative Home25 Feb 2026

Newslinks for Wednesday 25th February 2026

Mandelson held to stop him fleeing Britain | Greens plan to hand illegal migrants free house, a wage and NHS care | Brexit reset must go further, urges EU chief The post Newslinks for Wednesday 25th February 2026 appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Guido Fawkes24 Feb 2026

The Right Angle: The Lowe-down

After Rupert Lowe’s splashy launch of Restore Britain, the ex-Reform MP claims to now have north of 80,000 members. Some Reform HQ insiders are twitchy about Lowe peeling off chunks of the grassroot voters. One source admits Lowe is “extremely well connected” and, with serious donor cash, could snatch low single digits in the polls.…

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BBC Politics23 Feb 2026

Reform promises agency to ensure illegal migrant removals

The party's new home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be a "burning" priority for a Reform UK government.

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