The government is considering an alternative proposal to migrant hotels, it is understood, after the cost has become ...

The UK saw its first beach landing of an unescorted migrant boat in almost three years this weekend, raising fresh questions about Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s campaign to slow a record surge in ...

A first migrant has been sent back to France under a new 'one in one out' deal. The Indian national, who arrived in the UK by small boat last month, was returned by plane on Thursday morning. It is a ...

The enforcement action by the Home Office officials led to 20 arrests, 11 charges and five convictions in key locations across England, including Hounslow in west London More than a dozen people have ...

10:18, Thu, Sep 25, 2025 Updated: 10:18, Thu, Sep 25, 2025 Officials in some of Majorca's most popular resorts have slammed the government's "failed immigration policy" after small boat arrivals have ...

A second migrant has been returned to France under the "one in, one out" deal after losing a High Court bid. The Eritrean man was on a flight that left Heathrow for Paris at 6.15am on Friday, the Home ...

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Labour will try to use spending on roads and net-zero projects to count towards a new Nato target to spend 5 per of the UK’s income on “national security”, it has emerged. Sir Keir Starmer has signed ...

Two children are among three people to have died in the English Channel overnight in a small boat tragedy, French authorities report. A new deadly incident unfolded on board a small boat that was ...

On Saturday, a single boat carried a record 125 migrants FRENCH police stopped only a fifth of small boat migrants in the first week of the PM’s one-in, one-out ...

A woman has died while attempting to cross the English Channel on an overloaded small boat. The dinghy suffered what authorities described as a 'catastrophic deflation' 10 miles off the coast of Dover ...