Albania’s prime minister has accused the UK government of looking for “scapegoats” to blame for its “failed policies” on curbing illegal immigration. Edi Rama commented on UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s choice of language in a debate in the House of Commons this week, in which she said there is an “invasion” of England by…
UK Scapegoating Albanians for Its Failure to Curb Illegal Immigration, Nation’s PM Says
English City of Newcastle Severs Ties With Chinese Twin City
November 3, 2022
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Councillors in Newcastle, United Kingdom, on Wednesday voted unanimously to cut ties with the city’s Chinese twin city Taiyuan over human rights abuses in the communist country. It’s the first decoupling of Western and Chinese twin cities after 19 Hong Kong diasporic groups launched a global campaign in July calling on more than 100 cities in…
UK University Students to Take Legal Action Over ‘Lockdown’ Education That Saw Classes Moved Online
Thousands of students are taking legal action against their universities over months of disruption to their education because of lockdowns and staff strike actions. Nearly 20,000 students have joined group claims through the Student Group Claim to take action against universities that charged full fees despite failing to provide them with in-person tuition. The legal…
UK Counter Terrorism Police Assessing Chinese Police Outposts in London
November 3, 2022
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Counter-terrorism police officers are looking into a report that revealed unofficial Chinese police outposts in London, the Metropolitan police confirmed on Wednesday. Experts told The Epoch Times that the specialist division is involved because it’s responsible for dealing with cases in relation to state security and it works closely with the UK’s security services, particularly the…
UK Ditches Former PM Truss’s Plan to Relocate Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has abandoned plans by his predecessor to move the UK embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Downing Street has revealed. Liz Truss, when she was prime minister, ordered a review into whether the UK should follow the Trump administration in relocating the embassy from Tel Aviv. Asked whether the government…
2.5 Million Residents in England and Wales Were Born Outside the UK in Past Decade: ONS
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the number of England and Wales residents born outside of the UK has increased by 2.5 million in the decade since the last census in 2011. Figures released on Wednesday also showed that the number of people who listed Romania as their country of birth grew by…
UK Central Bank Raises Interest Rates to 3 Percent, Highest for 14 Years
November 3, 2022
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The Bank of England, the UK’s central bank, has raised its base interest rate to 3 percent, the highest for 14 years. All but two members of the bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to push up interest rates by 0.75 percentage points, from 2.25 to 3 percent, during a crunch meeting on Nov. 3….
Food Price Inflation Hits Record High in UK
Food prices in the United Kingdom have hit their highest record since 1980, after inflation soared by double digits last month. Last month’s inflation figures have squeezed the living standards of millions of British households, especially those with low incomes, who are struggling with the high costs. The British economy was hit hard by the…
Job Ad With Real White Prison Officer and Black Inmate Banned for Depicting ‘Negative Racial Stereotype’
The UK’s advertising regulator has ruled that a Facebook ad for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) was likely to cause serious offence by reinforcing negative stereotypes about black men. The ad for the MoJ’s Prison Jobs scheme, seen on June 25, featured an image of a white prison officer talking to a black inmate, with superimposed…
Sunak Says UK’s Illegal Immigrant Crisis Is ‘Serious and Escalating Problem’
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the wave of illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel is a “serious and escalating problem,” and admitted the Home Office has been too slow to process asylum claims. Almost 40,000 people have crossed the Channel this year in small boats, including 12,000 people from Albania, a peaceful country with…
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