All news on the topic: Home Office

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Prince Harry may spend time in UK under 'house arrest' amid row over security
The Duke of Sussex may be forced to be hole up inside his Frogmore Cottage base on the Windsor Castle estate over the bank holiday weekend and only leave to attend Coronation events with other royals
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Lotto rapist who scooped £7.2m has spent winnings on lavish home and Picasso
Iorworth Hoare won a £7.2m jackpot and has invested his money in property, office space and antiques - but spent almost £1m trying to avoid paying a victim compensation
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Tories' £140m Rwanda deal has seen no one sent there - a year after announced
Priti Patel boasted it would be 'biggest overhaul of our immigration system in decades' - but 12 months later Labour's Yvette Cooper has dismissed it as a 'Tory con'
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Meghan Markle was 'upset' Archie and Lilibet overlooked in Coronation plans
Prince Harry finally announced that he would attend his father’s crowning, but his wife Meghan would stay behind with their two children
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Pub owner embroiled in racist dolls controversy posted vile 'hanging' comment
Chris Ryley's pub The White Hart Inn in Essex had its display of offensive dolls removed by police - and now an unearthed Facebook post from 2016 appears to show the landlord making a vile joke about lynch mobs WARNING: STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE
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Racist dolls row landlady defies police to put dolls back on display
Golly dolls have long been accepted as deeply offensive to Black communities as images from the The White Hart Inn, in Grays, Essex, show some of the dolls being hung by their necks from the top of the bar WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE SOME READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE
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​Home Office forced to put on hold plans to house asylum seekers at RAF airbase
Braintree District Council, which opposes the plans, said in a statement it has been given the green light for an injunction hearing at the High Court on April 19
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Windrush legal action started over Suella Braverman's 'broken promises'
The Black Equity Organisation has sent legal papers to the Home Secretary on the fifth anniversary of the horrendous failings - which saw British citizens deported and denied access to healthcare - coming to light
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Police didn't turn up to 45,000 burglaries last year as Tories fail victims
Stark figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show that there were 45,233 burglaries in 2022 where a police officer didn't visit the scene of the crime
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Hundreds of thousands of Brits affected by 'unacceptable' passport delays
MPs found that 360,000 people were hit by hold-ups of more than 10 weeks when applying for travel documents in 2022, with holidaymakers left out of pocket and people struggling to get to family emergencies
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UK’s top burglary capital is Manchester – check where your town is on the list
The area where Brits' homes are most likely to be burgled has been revealed - and we've pulled together an interactive widget so you can check your area
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Anger as ministers shell out £10,000 a day on consultants to stop small boats
Labour's shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said the Government is paying pricey consultants to 'do their job for them' after agreeing a £3.9 million contract for 'leadership services' to end small boat crossings
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Suella Braverman ploughs ahead with migrant barge plan despite Tory legal threat
The Home Office has confirmed its plan to house more than 500 asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm vessel docked at Portland Port in Dorset - but Tory MP Richard Drax says he is considering a legal challenge
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Suella Braverman's refugee barge plan in chaos as Tory MP threatens legal action
Tory MP Richard Drax said legal action is being looked at as he called on Suella Braverman to scrap the plan to house more than 500 asylum seekers on a barge in Dorset
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'Suella Braverman isn’t being brave, she is being deliberately divisive'
'Grooming isn’t a colour issue. It’s about how to protect vulnerable young girls from exploitative nasty scum whatever their background, race or religion'
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Location chosen for mega-barge that will house 500 asylum seekers on UK coast
The gigantic barge named Bibby Stockholm was deemed an 'oppressive environment' when it was used by the Dutch government to house asylum seekers in 2005
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Woman trafficked at 13 by grooming gang tells Suella Braverman she was failed
In a harrowing letter to the Home Secretary, a woman who was trafficked and sold between gangs said she had to wait 562 days for officials to finally recognise she was a victim - during which time she had nowhere safe to stay
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'Incompetent' Tories failing to order Border Force boats despite migrant crisis
A former Defence Minister lashed out at the Government after the Immigration Minister admitted "formal discussions" on ordering new cutters and patrol craft had not even been held
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Pictured: Three-storey barge that could become floating hotel for refugees
Sources at the Barbados Maritime Ship Registry confirmed the Home Office wants to charter the vessel from Liverpool-based Bibby Marine
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Tories accused of 'gimmick' plan to house asylum seekers on disused barges
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick will announce the use of two RAF sites - Wethersfield and Scampton - on Wednesday, but one council is already seeking a High Court injunction.
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One in four children in youth prisons and secure sites are Black, report shows
The damning findings, from the Children’s Commissioner, looked into the children aged 10 to 18 in youth custody in England and Wales as of December 2022
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Pilot who served with British forces and fled to UK in boat facing deportation
An Afghan pilot who flew 30 combat missions fighting against the Taliban with British forces had no option but to travel to the UK via small boat and now faces deportation
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MP says ministers want to blame migrants on 'Labour, judges or footie pundits'
It comes as Rishi Sunak fights off rebels from his own party on his controversial Illegal Immigration Bill. MPs debated the details of the bill, which seeks to introduce powers to remove people who have entered the UK illegally
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Madeleine McCann investigation set to get 'hundreds of thousands of pounds'
A new request for funding on the Madeleine McCann case totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds is set to be approved by the Home Office, according to new reports
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Police carried out 2,800 strip searches on children as young as 8 in four years
A harrowing report by Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, found black children are six times more likely to be strip searched. The youngest child strip searched between 2018 and mid-2022 was just eight