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UK Border Force chief Brodie Clark resigns but denies “improperly” relaxing border checks, accusing the Home Secretary Theresa May of making his position “untenable” for “political convenience.”
Gary Gibbon
What is most interesting about an email from a senior manager at the UKBA to all immigration staff at Heathrow Terminal 5 is the reference to how border staff “are no longer able to suspend Secure ID except in the most exceptional circumstances. The Home Secretary has not given us that flexibility”.
Home Secretary Theresa May admits the number of people who entered the UK this summer without being fully checked against a database of terror suspects and illegal immigrants will “never be known”.
The home secretary is to appear in the Commons following claims hundreds of thousands of people were allowed to enter the UK over the summer without proper security checks.
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says he regrets his “colourful language” when he accused Home Secretary Theresa May of making “laughable and childlike” comments about the human rights act.
A row has broken out between Justice Secretary Ken Clarke and Home Secretary Theresa May over her claim that a foreigner was allowed to stay in the UK because he had a pet cat.
Home Secretary Theresa May tells the Conservative Party conference she will restore “sanity” to immigration, with measures including stopping the human rights act protecting foreign criminals.
Immigration laws will be strengthened to prevent the human rights act from protecting foreign criminals, says the home secretary.
A review of policing headed by former Scotland Yard chief Lord Stevens is to be set up by Labour, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper will announce at the party’s conference in Liverpool.
Senior police chief Sir Hugh Orde says Home Secretary Theresa May had no role in “more robust tactics”, no power to cancel police leave, and that the return of MPs from holiday was “an irrelevance”.
The Home Secretary is due to give more details of the new National Crime Agency, the Coalition’s successor to Labour’s heavily criticised SOCA unit.
Home Secretary Theresa May has launched the revised anti-terror Prevent strategy, promising tighter controls on anti-terror funds, targeting of “non-violent extremism”, and promoting integration.
Home Secretary Theresa May says universites are complacent on radicalism, but the president of the Islamic student body Fosis tells Channel 4 News her comments are ‘disrespectful and sensationalist.’
As the campaigns for and against a switch to the Alternative Vote step up a gear for the 5 May referendum, the former Home Secretary and now Labour Peer, John Reid, makes the case for a No vote.
A temporary immigration cap introduced by the Home Secretary this summer is ruled invalid by the High Court. Opposition politicians say the government’s immigration policy is in chaos.