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Steve Barclay claimed ministers took very swift action by removing asylum seekers from the Bibby Stockholm barge on Friday, despite Dorset Council claiming it notified a Home Office official on Tuesday last week

The finding comes from study by the Co-op and children's charity Barnardo's and is published as teens get ready to receive their A-level, T-level and BTEC results this week

An estimated 3.9 million working days have been lost to industrial action in the past year - more than at any point since the 1980s, according to research by the Resolution Foundation think tank

From the Bibby Stockholm farce to the staggering incompetence ministers showed during 'Stop the Small Boats' week, rising NHS waiting lists and yet more infighting, the PM will have a full inbox on his return

Supporters of the European Convention on Human Rights must seize the moment and confront right-wing propaganda demanding the UK leaves it now - or risk a Brexit-style disaster, argues Kevin Maguire

The Tories have once again showed themselves up to be hopelessly out of touch with the public with their insistence on shutting railway station ticket offices

Rishi Sunak's government are reeling after a horrific seven days in which the Bibby Stockholm migrant barge policy fell apart and several migrants tragically died in the Channel

A Mirror poll, conducted by Redfield & Wilton, found only one in five people are in favour of plans by train companies to shut ticket counters at 974 railway stations in England

British naval vessels have been summoned to escort Kremlin ships through UK waters dozens of times since 2021, according to a written parliamentary answer

Former President Donald Trump waved a grilled pork chop to cheering crowds at the Iowa State Fair during a competing event with fellow Republican presidential rival Ron DeSantis

New Home Office figures reveal 1,600 people made the perilous journey in three days, including 509 on Saturday - the day six people died and at least 58 were rescued

Gillian Keegan ignored the findings of economists when she launched into a rant on Twitter, wrongly claiming that Labour's plan to bring in VAT charges on fees for schools like Eton could cost taxpayers money

David Lidington warned that most voters are "seriously repelled" by hardliners who want to see the UK join Russia and Belarus by withdrawing from human rights laws

The TV star and activist branded the Home Secretary the "worst of the worst, utterly undeserving of the position you hold". Ms Braverman sparked anger by saying her "thoughts and prayers" were with those affected by yesterday's tragedy

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson accused the Tories of creating a 'perfect storm' in the teaching workforce, saying 'teachers old and new are leaving and with too few replacing them'

Today's Channel tragedy, which claimed the lives of at least six people, comes just hours after the plan to house asylum seekers on a barge turned into a fiasco

Amit Lohia, whose business interests include a Russian textiles plant, boosted the Conservatives' coffers with the huge sum in March - the second largest donation of the year

Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child as part of the Kindertransport, said the comments from the Conservatives' Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson were 'unworthy' of a politician

Keir Mudie says he is worried as the Labour Party appears to be quiet after the latest comment made by Tory MP Lee Anderson as staffers think his views are too extreme to engage with

Labour's Shadow Immigration Minister Stephen Kinnock writes for The Mirror as a horrifying new Channel tragedy saw six die on a small boat and amid chaos in the Tories' policies toward asylum seekers

Salia Issa was working at a Texas prison when she began suffering intense pain while seven months pregnant, but has said she was accused of lying and stopped from going to hospital for more than two hours

Labour demanded Rishi Sunak’s government 'come clean about the shameful waste' of public money blown on the attempt to block the unredacted release of the ex-PM's messages

The three-year-old boy was on a Texas migrant bus en route to Chicago when he became unwell with paramedics treating him at the scene before taking him to hospital where he later died

Campaigners at the League Against Cruel Sports wants the devices outlawed - but supporters say they help protect birds from predators such as foxes and other wildlife

A further 1,000 people arrived in boats this week, taking the total to have crossed since 2018 to more than 100,000 - this is what happens if you prioritise gimmicks and bombast