Such policies are ‘betrayal’ of values, says French president in speech covering defence and negative effects of Brexit

Five migrants, including a seven-year-old girl, were killed when their dinghy got into trouble off the coast of France as they attempted the English Channel crossing on Tuesday morning

Reform UK's deputy leader Ben Habib appeared to suggest migrants should be left to drown in the English Channel in comments that horrified an interviewer on Tuesday, 23 April. It came after a seven-year-old girl was among five migrants who died as th ...

Ben Habib said asylum seekers attempting to reach Britain in small boats should ‘suffer the consequences’ of trying to reach the UK in small boats

National Crime Agency questioning three men after fatal boat crossing attempt from France on Tuesday

Ministers are braced for legal challenges to the Rwanda plan and the judiciary has made 25 courtrooms available to deal with cases.

Another shipwreck in same waters two weeks ago killed 38 people

Children among those killed in second fatal incident in two weeks close to the Horn of Africa, says UN agency

migrants were rescued while crossing the English Channel and brought to Dover on Tuesday 23 April, hours after the UK approved the migrant deportation bill. Footage from Sky News showed the UK Border Force vessel approaching the small crowded boat to ...

A Tory immigration minister was grilled on immigration figures as migrants were seen travelling through the Channel on a boat live on air. Michael Tomlinson was questioned on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, 23 April, after Rishi Sunak’s controversial Rwa ...

French police have evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has said not a single asylum seeker will go to Rwanda under a Labour government. The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration Bill) cleared Parliament shortly after midnight today (23 April) after peers backed down ...

Five migrants have died in an attempt to cross the English Channel just hours after Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda bill was passed by Parliament.

migrants planning to enter Britain from France illegaly have insisted they will not be put off by the threat of being flown to Rwanda. Prime minister Rishi Sunak said flights to Rwanda have been booked and will take off by July, “no ifs, no buts ...

Rishi Sunak is desperate to get his Rwanda bill passed and to ‘stop the boats’

Tory MPs said to want concession as Home Office staff warn migrants marked for deportation will go ‘underground’

The Conservatives are obsessed by Angela Rayner and immigrants. And then there’s MP Mark Menzies…

Rowaa Ahmar, a former senior civil servant, describes ‘inhumane conversations’ in government

Former head of policy at illegal migration taskforce details ‘inhumane conversations’

The man was caught working with another transferring nine people into a lorry