Simon Israel

The immigration minister says the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in recent days is “deeply concerning”. Twenty three migrants were involved in three separate rescues on the Kent coast overnight and this morning. It comes after more than forty migrants were picked up on Christmas day. Our Senior Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel…

One of the sectors which relies heavily on lower-skilled workers from abroad, especially the EU, is social care, and employers have warned they will find it hard to adapt and fill vacancies when freedom of movement comes to an end.

An aspect of the current climate on immigration has been the impact on those caught up in the Windrush scandal. The government’s promised hardship fund is finally offering any victims who are facing urgent financial need up to £5,000, but there won’t be any cash until well into the new year.

Fifteen activists have been found guilty of a terror related charge after they chained themselves around a plane at Stansted Airport – in a bid to stop an immigration removals flight from taking off. 

Five refugee families, marooned on a British military base in Cyprus for the past 20 years, will finally been allowed to resettle in the UK, Channel 4 News has learned.

The family of a man who died in police custody after he was Tasered and bitten by a police dog say they are devastated after police officers were exonerated over their actions.

Lessons were not learned from previous terror attacks and potential opportuntiies to prevent some of them were missed. That’s the damming verdict of an inquiry by a committee of MPs which found that MI5’s methods of monitoring suspects was not up to scratch and the system which regulates materials used for bomb making was “hopelessly…

The National Crime Agency has seized more than 50 handguns which were bought online from eastern Europe in a nationwide operation from Cornwall to Scotland. Twenty-five police forces were involved and 10 people were arrested, including a serving firefighter. The weapons are becoming popular with gangs because they’re small and easy to carry.

Tonight is usually one of the busiest nights of the year for firefighters. As well as the dangers of fighting fires, in recent years crews have been ambushed during call-outs. Last year, there were nearly a thousand attacks on fire crews across England and Wales.

Two years ago, a wall collapsed at a recycling plant in the West Midlands. Five migrant workers were killed. Now their widows are appealing against a refusal to grant legal aid for the inquest, which starts next week.

Julian Cole was a 19-year-old sports science student when he went for a night out in Bedford in 2013. He ended up brain damaged and paralysed after a scuffle with nightclub doormen and police officers. Now three of the Bedfordshire Police officers involved in his arrest have been sacked after being found guilty of gross misconduct. A…

Russia’s former President Mikhail Gorbachev has said Donald Trump is making a ‘mistake’ after the US President announced plans to abandon a key nuclear weapons treaty originally signed in 1987.

The deadline for submissions to the Home Secretary’s review of the Windrush scandal closed today, amid a row over the make-up of the advisory panel. Support groups have questioned the appointment of a senior civil servant who oversaw huge cuts to legal aid and a former immigration judge linked to the anti-immigration campaign group Migration Watch. But…

The Home Secretary has been accused of abandoning the UK’s moral and legal stand against the death penalty by handing over evidence to the United States on two alleged Isis terrorists. The accusation’s been made by Ben Emmerson QC, a sitting Judge, who’s called for an inquiry into Sajid Javid’s decision to hand over evidence…

Another prison, another shocking inspection report – this time from HMP Chelmsford. A visit by inspectors in May this year found high levels of violence at the Essex prison, and one of the worst rates of drug use seen in a UK jail. The Chief Inspector of Prisons said the increase in violence, number of…