Faisal Islam
Councils axe 100,000 planned homes in England
Faisal Islam writes on how councils in England have scrapped plans to build 100,000 new homes following a change in the planning rules by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.
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Councils ‘abandon’ 100,000 new homes plans
Exclusive: Channel 4 News has seen figures showing councils have pulled plans for 100,000 new homes since the coalition government told them in July to ignore previous government homebuilding targets.
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How did Straw become a war-time secretary?
So how did Jack Straw go from lefty student to foreign secretary during a war? The Iraq Inquiry Blogger takes a deeper look.
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Guantanamo, terror and protecting the US homeland
Obama came to power promising to close Guantanamo Bay. In June 2009, Channel 4 News talked to his top security official about the threat of al-Qaida and the controversial detention camp.
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Backlash over government plans to reopen two immigration detention centres
The Home Secretary is facing a backlash over plans to reopen two immigration detention centres in England.
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Rioters attack hotel housing asylum seekers amid far-right violence
The violence escalated rapidly in Rotherham this afternoon as rioters attacked a hotel housing asylum seekers. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said police had full Government support for the “strongest action” against those responsible.
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Four people dead after small boat capsizes crossing Channel
Four people have died after their heavily crowded inflatable boat capsized while attempting to cross the English Channel in an incident that the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has described as “truly awful”.
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Cleverly challenged on betting scandal and visas for orphans from Gaza
We spoke to Home Secretary James Cleverly.
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Is Labour’s immigration plan really different from the Conservatives’?
Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused the Conservatives of total failure over their immigration numbers policy saying they couldn’t clear up their own chaos.
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Rishi Sunak faces pressure to ‘change course’ following Tory election defeats
Admitting that a change of leader is not ‘a feasible prospect’, the former Home Secretary Suella Braverman today urged Rishi Sunak to ‘change course’ following what she described as the ‘terrible results’ in Thursday’s elections.
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UK signs new asylum treaty with Rwanda
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.
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Rishi Sunak has denied ‘tinkering’ with Rwanda plan amid scathing criticism by Suella Braverman
Rishi Sunak has denied ‘tinkering’ with the Government’s plans to remove illegal migrants to Rwanda – amid scathing criticism by his sacked Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
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Can Rishi Sunak get his government back on track?
He’s sacked his Home Secretary, brought David Cameron back into Government and seen a flagship policy overruled by the UK’s top court. Rishi Sunak has promised emergency legislation “in the coming weeks” to declare Rwanda is safe for asylum seekers, under pressure from both wings of his party.
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Suella Braverman expresses “full backing” for Met ahead of pro-Palestine protests
The Home Secretary Suella Braverman has expressed her “full backing” for the police at a meeting with the Met police chief Sir Mark Rowley – amid the growing row over her article in the Times which criticised the policing of pro-Palestinian protests.
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Conservative Party Conference: Senior London Tory removed for heckling Braverman
At the Conservative party conference in Manchester the Home Secretary Suella Braverman got the best reception of the week for her speech warning that a “hurricane” of migrants was coming to Britain.
