Politics

The top civil servant at the Home Office has been summoned before MPs on Monday – to explain the full costs of the government’s scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. 

We asked the Tory MP Danny Kruger about allegations that the Government was looking incompetent over its Rwanda policy.

We were joined by Labour’s Diana Johnson MP, who’s chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee.

People all over the country will have been watching Mr Johnson’s testimony, the majority of whom were affected in some way by how the government handled the pandemic. 

After weeks of testimony alleging chaos at the heart of Downing Street during the pandemic, today it was Boris Johnson’s turn to put his side of the story.  

We spoke to the former Tory MP Sir Edward Leigh and started by asking him for his reaction about Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick’s resignation.

In the last few minutes, reports say Robert Jenrick has resigned as immigration minister over the Rwanda migrant bill, as Labour accused the Government of ‘total chaos’. 

There’s no credible reason to question Rwanda’s record, according to the Home Secretary James Cleverly, who’s been in Kigali signing a new treaty he hopes will get the Government’s asylum seeker policy back on track.

Ireland’s Justice Minister has condemned what she called “an attack on innocence itself”, after three young children and a woman were injured in a suspected stabbing in Dublin. Police say a man in his 50s – who’s also being treated for injuries – has been detained, and they don’t believe the attack is terror-related. They…

It was once seen as a beacon of liberalism. But the Netherlands has sent shockwaves through Europe, handing a dramatic election victory to far-right populist Geert Wilders. Curbing immigration is his top priority. But he’s toned down his anti-Islam rhetoric, putting his plan to ban mosques on hold, and pledging to be “prime minister for…

Paul Johnson is the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Cathy asked him whether or not the UK is about to face some rather painful cuts in government spending.

No government minister was available to talk about Immigration today, but Cathy went to Westminster to speak to the Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and began by asking her if Labour would cut net migration.

Net migration hit a record high in 2022, after the Office for National Statistics revised its previous estimate. We look at the numbers.

Net migration hit a record high in 2022, after the Office for National Statistics revised its previous estimate. And it’s not a small revision. It now says net migration – which is the number of people coming to the UK minus the number leaving wasn’t 606,000 in 2022 as it previously estimated, but 745,000 –…

How is the news of David Cameron’s shock return to government going down with voters?