Media Reports Archive : July 2022


Rishi Sunak unveils controversial plan to BAN homes from being built in green belt countryside in bid to woo back Tory heartlands despite the UK's housing crisis as the leadership rivals face their first test in front of party members

Rishi Sunak today vowed to ban the building of new homes in the countryside

29 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Migrants crossing the Mediterranean who’ll try to reach the UK say they haven’t heard of Rwanda asylum policy

Migrants crossing the Mediterranean who will attempt to reach the UK have told i that they have not heard of the Government’s Rwanda plan

29 Jul 2022 - Media Report: iNews
British and French coastguards passed the buck as 31 people and an unborn child died in the English Channel's worst ever migrant drowning, report claims

This responsibility-dodging is alleged to have gone on for a staggering six to seven hours across 80 separate phone calls

27 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Conservative voters demand action on immigration. Which candidate will offer it?

Our poll reveals a deep undercurrent of concern about the impact of massive levels of immigration on the future of our society

27 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Conservative Home
Don't take us back to the Nasty Party': Tories warn 'divided parties don't get elected' after Sunak 'mansplained and interrupted' and Truss attacked his wealth in brutal TV debate - but polls say she's favourite to win ahead of face-off aga

Both have committed to the Rwanda scheme that is meant to see Channel migrants deported to Africa - though non have yet been sent

26 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Eritrean migrant 'who posed as a 17-year-old boy to claim asylum in UK was unmasked as an adult after wife posted wedding picture on Facebook'

An Eritrean boat migrant who claimed to be a 17-year-old boy was unmasked to UK authorities after his wife shared a wedding photo on Facebook

26 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Rethink Rwanda asylum plan, MPs tell Priti Patel

Priti Patel must reconsider her Rwanda asylum plan because it is not safe, Parliament’s human rights committee has said

26 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Exploitation of migrants is rising as care homes struggle to fill jobs

Last year, care home staff in north Wales became worried about some of their colleagues who were turning up to their shifts tired and hungry

26 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Financial Times
Times letters: Rivals’ posturing over China and migration

Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss recognise that people do not feel that Britain has control of its borders

26 Jul 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Rwanda policy could deter migrants heading to the UK, people smugglers admit

Britain's controversial Rwanda policy could work, according to several Iraqi people smugglers

25 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Sky News
Rishi Sunak: I’m not racist for wanting secure borders

Rishi Sunak told Britons there is “absolutely nothing racist” about wanting secure borders

25 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
The next PM must be ready to pull Britain out of the ECHR

On Right and Left, advocates of mass immigration claim it leaves us better off, but this is not true

25 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Tough talk on borders won’t cut it any more

The word ‘shambles’ is overused. But it perfectly describes Britain’s broken immigration and asylum system

25 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
New model desperately needed to secure UK borders, according to critical new report

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration found the Home Office response to the small boats crisis is “Ineffective and inefficient”

22 Jul 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Channel migrants landed in Britain with GUNS: Asylum-seekers triggered alerts on security databases and later vanished... and others were ARMED, scathing official report by borders watchdog reveals

Channel migrants who triggered alerts on security databases have been allowed to vanish, a bombshell report warned

22 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Use of UK hotels for asylum seekers trebles despite Home Office promise

The use of hotel accommodation for people seeking asylum almost trebled in 2021

21 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Guardian
Migrant crisis: Border Force may have made it worse - report

The Border Force, which polices the UK's borders, may have made the small boats crisis in the Channel worse

21 Jul 2022 - Media Report: BBC
Linton on Ouse: MP says asylum seeker centre plans must be postponed until new Government is in place

The Home Office wants to convert the old RAF base in Linton-on-Ouse into a centre for up to 1,500 men

21 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Yorkshire Post
Brits will be able to skip passport queues and breeze through border controls in the UK under 'contactless corridor' plans using facial recognition technology

Britons will be able to skip passport queues and breeze through border controls under new 'contactless corridor' plans using facial recognition

21 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Park Inn stabbing victim loses inquiry legal bid

An asylum seeker who was stabbed at a Glasgow hotel by a man who was shot dead by police has lost his bid for an independent inquiry

21 Jul 2022 - Media Report: BBC
Priti Patel warned against Rwanda deportation plan by officials, court hears

Priti Patel went ahead with controversial plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda despite warnings from Government officials

20 Jul 2022 - Media Report: The Mirror
Putin’s war is triggering another migrant crisis

Illegal immigration, people smuggling gangs, violence. Britain is all too familiar with this destructive network

20 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
At least 100 migrants including a tiny baby land in Dover today as total to have crossed Channel this year passes 15,000 – double the amount recorded by the same time last year

At least 100 migrants including a tiny baby have crossed the English Channel by small boat today

20 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
'Shameful' Albanian smuggling gang boast they're 'best in France' at getting migrants to UK 'without problems'

The Albanian gang have used Tik Tok and other apps to plant short video adverts touting for new customers

20 Jul 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Migrants brave heatwave as arrivals close to exceeding 15,000 for the year

Some 14,777 people have arrived in the UK so far this year after navigating busy shipping lanes from France in small boats

19 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Evening Standard
Tony Blair told UK was 'attractive destination for asylum seekers' after 'explosion in numbers' under Labour

New Labour’s attempts to tackle immigration were partly thwarted by a UN protocol which meant the UK was an attractive destination

19 Jul 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Kemi Badenoch is the only candidate to break silence on migration issue, says ALP MEHMET

FINALLY, the eerie silence has been broken by Kemi Badenoch

19 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Daily Express
Tony Blair launches new drive for digital ID cards to tackle illegal immigration

The proposal follows a doubling to more than 14,200 in the number of migrants reaching the UK in small boats across the Channel

15 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
The secret to staying skinny is eating less... not exercising more, study finds

The former chancellor, 42, spoke in support of the scheme 'as the child and grandchild of immigrants' to the UK

15 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Migrant crossings continue for seventh consecutive day

More than 1,000 people arrived in the UK between Friday and Wednesday, with Thursday’s numbers yet to be published

15 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Evening Standard
Three men charged with attempting to smuggle migrants to the UK in the back of lorries

Three men, alleged to be ‘leading members’ of an organised crime gang, have been charged with people smuggling offences

15 Jul 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Deported criminals sneak back into the UK among thousands of migrants' Channel crossings

Criminals who were deported from the UK have managed to get back into the country by arriving among thousands of migrants who cross using small boats

14 Jul 2022 - Media Report: LBC
Migrants arrive in Dover 'wet and with petrol burns', watchdog says

Migrants who cross the Channel in small boats are arriving in Dover soaking wet and with petrol burns

14 Jul 2022 - Media Report: BBC
Liz Truss ‘would walk away from European Human Rights judges’ over Channel migrants

LIZ Truss told Tory MPs she was 'prepared to leave' the European Convention on Human Rights

14 Jul 2022 - Media Report: The Sun
Stockport councillor Alanna Vine suspended in racist retweet probe

A councillor has been suspended for allegedly sharing tweets claiming mosques were hiding 'secret arsenals' and immigration was 'cultural suicide'

14 Jul 2022 - Media Report: BBC
Four arrested in NCA operation targeting smuggling of migrants to UK by lorry

Four men have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) operation targeting a group linked to the smuggling of migrants to the UK

14 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Evening Standard
Number of migrants crossing English Channel in 2022 tops 13,000 as another 248 were caught trying to get to UK yesterday despite Europe-wide police raids on traffickers

Five boats were picked up on Wednesday carrying the 248 migrants, after 40 people made the crossing

8 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Three to stand trial after Kenmure Street protest

Two men and a woman are to stand trial following a mass protest in Glasgow over immigration detentions

8 Jul 2022 - Media Report: BBC
Britain and France set for new £50m deal to tackle Channel migrants

The UK and France are set to sign a new £50 million deal to tackle Channel migrants in the wake of a crackdown on people smugglers

8 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Channel crossing gang made £13m from smuggling 10,000 migrants

A people-smuggling gang behind up to a quarter of Channel crossings made £13 million

8 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
The neighbours fighting immigration raids

The chairman of Migration Watch UK, Alp Mehmet, describes these anti-raid protesters as “vigilantes”

7 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Guardian
Police smash gang ‘behind quarter of Channel migrant arrivals in UK’

A people-smuggling gang believed to be behind a quarter of the migrants arriving in Britain has been smashed

6 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
More than 100 migrants cross English Channel after French Navy pick up one man trying to make the journey in a KAYAK as it emerges traffickers won't get life sentences

More than 100 migrants crossed the English Channel by small boat today after a man was rescued by the French Navy in a kayak

5 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
More migrants arrive in Kent as crossings resume James Black Thanks Alp, I'll keep an eye on it. Jamie

A young girl was carried to safety by a member of the armed forces as more migrants arrived on the Kent coast

5 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Evening Standard
Priti Patel to create deportation 'league table' and place sanctions on countries not taking back foreign criminals

The table will show those countries – such as Albania, Nigeria and Poland – which are more willing to accept criminals and failed asylum seekers

5 Jul 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Park Inn stabbing victim 'can't sleep or block out' trauma of Glasgow attack as he sues UK Government for inquiry

A victim of the Park Inn stabbings who is suing the UK Government for a public inquiry said he is haunted by the attack

4 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Daily Record
Almost 300 Afghan refugees still in Yorkshire hotels nearly a year after airlift as minister admits his frustration

Around 285 displaced people, including children, who have fled the Taliban are still living in two hotels in North Yorkshire

4 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Yorkshire Post
Wrong to deport Rochdale grooming gang members, immigration tribunal told

A ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang has avoided being deported and it would therefore be wrong to deport two other gang members

4 Jul 2022 - Media Report: ITV
UK Home Office plans second flight to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

The Home Office is planning a second flight to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

4 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Guardian
Priti Patel praises National Crime Agency after 15 suspected people smugglers were arrested over the death of migrants in the Channel

The victims drowned in November when their boat sank off the coast of Calais as they attempted to cross to Britain

4 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
UK strikes immigration deal with Nigeria to speed up deportation of dangerous foreign criminals

Official figures show an alarming drop in the number of foreign criminals being deported from the UK in recent years

1 Jul 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Nigerian criminals will be sent home to jails in deportation push

Nigerian criminals are to be sent home to serve their sentences in a boost to deportations, Priti Patel has announced

1 Jul 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph

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