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

Home secretary said he was being ‘a bit clunky with my phraseology’

As David Cameron learned to his cost over Brexit, voters don’t judge politicians on policy, they judge on results, says Henry Hill of ConservativeHome

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

Father ‘saw his little daughter die before his eyes’ says charity worker after Channel rescue

UN and Council for Europe add voices to outcry as more people drown within hours of ‘cruel’ rwanda bill being passed

Michael Tomlinson’s efforts to defend rwanda bill show how well suited he is to be part of the new moronocracy

The PM gets through his ‘emergency legislation’ after four-and-a-half months of parliamentary ping-pong

Editorial: There is no evidence for the government’s claim that deportations will ‘stop the boats’

Legal and logistic battles await the UK government’s untested asylum plan now that is has reached the parliamentary finishing line

The prime minister was grilled about whether he would hold a summer election to capitalise on the scheme coming into effect

Watch live as Rishi Sunak meets Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk at a military base in Warsaw on Tuesday, 23 April, after his controversial rwanda bill was given the green light in parliament.

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 ...

Union threatens ministers with legal action amid fears staff could be obliged to breach civil service code and international law

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 ...

The government has already committed £290 million to the troubled scheme

Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt, and Grant Shapps arrived in Warsaw on Tuesday (23 April) just hours after the government’s controversial rwanda Bill was passed. The prime minister is expected to unveil an extra £500 million of military funding to Ukrain ...

A Tory immigration minister appeared to bang the table during a heated BBC Radio 4 interview discussing Rishi Sunak's controversial rwanda bill. Michael Tomlinson spoke to Mishal Husain a day after the plan to deport asylum seekers to the African nat ...

Power briefly went off in the House of Lords on Monday evening (22 April) as a peer was mid-way through a speech. Lights in the chamber flickered before going out while Lord Bellamy was speaking at the despatch box. After television screens and micro ...