The Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed it has launched an investigation into a school at the centre of an animal and gender identity row. Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has ordered a senior colleague to head up the probe into Rye College after a leaked recording heard one of its teachers brand a pupil “despicable”…

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing criticism from within his party ranks as a new Conservative grouping loyal to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds its first formal meeting. The Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO)—which was set up in the aftermath of Johnson’s removal from office and amid anger at the installation of Sunak as prime…

The UK government has unveiled plans for new laws to crack down on illegal immigration in the English Channel, which will ban anyone who arrives illegally from claiming asylum. More than 45,000 illegal immigrants crossed the English Channel in small boats to reach the UK in 2022. And the latest Home Office figures show nearly…

A record 45,756 illegal immigrants crossed the English Channel to reach the UK in 2022, UK government figures show. The last crossings of the year took place on Christmas Day when 90 people made the journey from France in two boats. The Ministry of Defence recorded no further crossings for the remaining six days of…

The UK should house illegal immigrants in “simple, functional” spaces as opposed to luxury hotels in a bid to disincentivise “asylum shopping,” Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has said. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Jenrick said the UK “has an obligation to provide sanctuary to some of the many who flee war and persecution,” but the…

French police have busted a people-smuggling gang which had been using small boats to take illegal immigrants across the English Channel to the UK. The gang, based in Lille and run by Iraqi Kurds, was detected thanks to intelligence sharing between authorities in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK, police said on Sept. 22….

More illegal immigrants have crossed the English Channel to reach the UK so far this year than in the whole of 2021, UK government figures suggest. Some 601 people were detected on Sept. 12 in 19 boats, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said, taking the provisional total for the year to 28,561. Last year’s total…

More than 25,000 illegal immigrants have been detected crossing the English Channel in small boats to reach the UK since the beginning of 2022, UK government figures show. According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), 915 illegal immigrants were detected in 19 small boats on Aug. 27, taking the provisional total for the year to…

More than 25,000 illegal immigrants have been detected crossing the English Channel in small boats to reach the UK since the beginning of 2022, UK government figures show. According to the Ministry of Defence, 915 illegal immigrants were detected in 19 small boats on Aug. 27, taking the provisional total for the year to 25,146….

A record 1,295 illegal immigrants crossed the English Channel and arrived in Kent on Monday, the highest figure for a single day since the current system of record-keeping began in 2018. The Ministry of Defence, which is operating Operation Isotrope—in which the Royal Navy intercepts small boats from France and Belgium and escorts them ashore—said…