Today, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood speaks to Laura about the government’s new immigration plans. Under the plans, people who are granted asylum will need to wait 20 years before they can apply to ...

Shabana Mahmood says the government "need to restore order and control", as Conservative Chris Philp says the plans "aren't ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government plans to reform the asylum appeals process to speed up the deportation of rejected applicants amid nationwide protests over the housing of migrants in ...

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the country’s asylum system needs “substantial reforms” as she laid out plans to reduce record flows of migrants arriving in small boats across the English Channel ...

Below is a list – although not exhaustive – of what asylum seekers are entitled to get from the UK Government while they are awaiting a decision on their case. That includes cash support (normally ...

People who apply for asylum in the UK move through different types of accommodation while waiting to hear if their claim has been approved. Here the PA news agency explains how the system works and ...

LONDON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Nigel Farage's Reform UK set out plans this week for the mass deportation of asylum seekers from Britain, which would involve withdrawing from human rights treaties and ...

The figurehead of the populist right in the United Kingdom has pledged to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and withdraw the country from international human rights treaties. But experts ...

Jonathan Darling has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. He is affiliated with the No Accommodation Network as a trustee. Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s pledge to “end the ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s pledge to “end the costly use of asylum hotels in this parliament” is a rare thing in British politics: a policy supported by all major political parties and a range of ...