Ukrainian refugees face spin and confusion from Priti Patel’s Home Office
With reheated announcements and sluggish tweaks, nothing close to a “bespoke humanitarian route” has created in response to the Russian…
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Borders bill would treat Ukrainian refugees “as criminals”, ministers are warned
MPs have been briefed that the war could create five million refugees, while peers prepare to oppose legislation that may…
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Court lets Priti Patel keep charging children £1,012 for citizenship
Politicians are trying to amend the Nationality and Borders Bill to stop the government profiting £640 from each child.
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“Hurdle after hurdle”: the Windrush scandal lives on, as a victim’s son faces deportation
Two decades after coming to the UK as a teenager, Damian Gabrielle has lost a High Court battle against the…
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Exclusive: Nationality and Borders Bill is “unconstitutional”, says top law firm
New powers sought by the government to strip British citizenship have been deemed “exorbitant, ill-defined and unconstitutional”.
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Why the government’s plan to use the Navy against Channel migrants sounds familiar
To divert attention from the latest scandal, ministers are repeating empty immigration announcements made many times before.
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Exclusive: leading UK charity heads condemn the Nationality and Borders Bill as “overtly racist”
A letter opposing the legislation has been signed by 100 civil society figures, including the CEOs of the Runnymede Trust…
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Citizenship under threat: read the New Statesman’s coverage of the Nationality and Borders Bill
Exclusive reporting by the New Statesman found that the citizenship of nearly six million British people could be jeopardised by…
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What does the Nationality and Borders Bill mean for you?
Under the legislation, the home secretary would be able to deprive British people of citizenship without telling them first.
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Humanity, not hostility, will solve the migrant crisis
Boris Johnson’s government could prevent Channel crossings with wit and moral imagination, but it has neither.
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Priti Patel’s French snub suits everyone – except the people caught in the middle
Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron’s row may solve the political problem – but not the human one.
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Frosty French and British relations are at best childish, at worst deadly
While ministers grandstand, desperate people are preparing to make the dangerous journey across the sea
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UK raises terror threat level to “severe”. What does this mean?
A further terrorist attack is now regarded as “highly likely” by the independent Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre.
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Are anonymous accounts responsible for most online abuse?
Data analysis by the New Statesman shows the share of abuse from anonymous and named accounts.
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What does the decline of Priti Patel tell us about the Tory party’s future?
Conservative MPs still adore her, but among party activists the Home Secretary’s stock is not as high as it once…
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