The terrorism-related prison population has reached its highest level in the published Home Office series, with 57 per cent of those in custody classified as holding Islamist-extremist views.
Vicky Richter · 9 October 2026The Home Secretary has said Britain is ‘not in control’ of the Channel border and that criminal gangs conduct the ‘sifting’ of migrants preparing to cross in northern France. She also said almost every woman waiting there to make the journey has probably been raped.
Vicky Richter · 5 October 2026The Home Office has confirmed the returns pilot with France is "no longer processing new cases". Around 1,500 people were sent back at a reported cost of £56,000 each, as ministers point to a fall of more than 40 per cent in small boat arrivals so far this year.
Vicky Richter · 2 October 2026Some 83,279 people have arrived in small boats since the general election, compared with 73,660 regular soldiers in the British Army. The milestone came in a record week: 781 crossings on Wednesday and two dinghies landing unchallenged on the Kent coast.
Vicky Richter · 25 September 2026France's parliamentary inquiry into the Channel accords has warned that the next three-year deal could reach €1 billion, equivalent to roughly £860 million. Sébastien Huyghe's figure is conditional, and nothing has been agreed.
Vicky Richter · 24 September 2026The share of the universal credit bill going to households with at least one foreign national has barely moved in years, sitting at 15.6 per cent. The bill has gone from £7.5bn to £11.9bn in two.
Vicky Richter · 21 September 2026Shabana Mahmood has told MPs the 'one in, one out' Channel returns deal with France has cost £78 million so far, at £56,000 per migrant returned. Just 1,400 people have been sent back in 11 months, while 28,000 have crossed the Channel.
Vicky Richter · 16 September 2026An Oxfordshire village has voted to “leave” the UK in a symbolic referendum held against plans to accommodate up to 1,256 male asylum seekers at the former MoD Bicester site.
Vicky Richter · 16 September 2026"At best 1 per cent of asylum seekers are genuine." That is the estimate of an anonymous Home Office decision-maker, not an official statistic. He told The Times he saw package claims and fabricated evidence, as UNHCR separately raised concerns about how Britain decides asylum cases.
Vicky Richter · 9 September 2026Demonstrators followed the coaches carrying the mega-dinghy arrivals all the way from Portsmouth to Dover overnight, and one pursuing car was pulled over on the M20. Kent Police found no offences and waved the driver on. The pursuit was the end of a weekend that brought the biggest smuggling operation yet seen on the Solent to the doorstep of the Royal Navy's home city.
Vicky Richter · 8 September 2026Barnet Council has quietly approved voluntary-aided status for Barnet Hill Academy, an independent Islamic primary where a white hijab is "compulsory" for every girl from Year 3, meaning British taxpayers will now fund the religious veiling of children as young as seven. The Great British PAC says the decision is a safeguarding failure, a betrayal of Britain's Christian foundations, and a case study in how councils bury contentious changes behind four-week consultations that residents never see.
Vicky Richter · 2 September 2026Companies later struck off or suspended for underpaying staff and sponsoring visas for jobs that did not exist were awarded almost 100,000 certificates to bring migrant care workers into the UK, an analysis of official records reveals. As the government clamps down after the fact, serious questions remain about why the licences were ever granted.
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