Government plans to tackle illegal immigration across the English Channel are poised to become law after ministers saw off a series of renewed challenges in the House of Lords. Under the Illegal Migration Bill, anyone who arrives in the UK illegally will be banned from claiming asylum, and will be deported to their home country…

The government has been given the go-ahead to take a legal battle over its Rwanda deportation policy to the Supreme Court. Under the government’s proposed Illegal Migration Bill, anyone who arrives in the UK illegally will be banned from claiming asylum, and will be deported to their home country or a safe third country like…

A Home Office minister has accused members of the House of Lords of seeking to derail the government’s Illegal Migration Bill, after the peers inflicted a series of defeats on the government on Wednesday. The legislation is a key part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s bid to deter illegal immigrants from crossing the English Channel…

Tory minister Robert Jenrick has faced fierce criticism from his own party’s backbenchers over immigration enforcement. As opposition MPs lined up to denounce the Illegal Migration Bill on Tuesday, Conservative politicians also grilled the immigration minister on when government agencies were going to “get a grip” on rising illegal immigrant cases. Jenrick was in the…

A leading human rights lawyer has told the government how she is increasingly representing Albanian children trafficked into the UK for crime purposes. Danny Bayraktarova told the Home Affairs Select Committee that Albanian teenagers make up a large proportion of her caseload with many being criminally exploited by “highly organised” international people-smuggling gangs. The solicitor…

More than 10,000 migrants have been detected arriving in the UK on small boats this year—with 1,100 in the past three days. The jump in arrivals is still 1,000 fewer than those recorded at the same time in 2022. According to Home Office data charting the daily journeys, some 486 people made the dangerous journey…

More than 10,000 illegal immigrants have been detected arriving in the UK on small boats this year—with 1,100 in the past three days. The jump in arrivals is still 1,000 fewer than those recorded at the same time in 2022. According to Home Office data charting the daily journeys, some 486 people made the dangerous…

The home secretary was asked about the levels of organised prostitution in her constituency as she faced questions over the fate of trafficked women under her small boats bill. During Wednesday’s Home Affairs Committee, Dame Diana Johnson said an adult website currently listed 300 sex worker adverts in Suella Braverman’s Hampshire constituency. Half of those,…

Peers say they have been “abused, bullied and intimidated” by the government over legislation to stop the small boats crisis. In what was yet another marathon and rocky session through the House of Lords, the Illegal Migration Bill was torn apart line-by-line into the early hours of Tuesday with some members saying they were “shaking…

The Home Office faces a serious delay in pushing forward its Illegal Migration Bill as peers demand to see an economic impact assessment on the controversial legislation. On Monday, Home Office minister Lord Murray of Blidworth was heckled in the Lords as he repeatedly said the report would be “published in due course.” The Tory…