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Home Secretary accused of unlawful process to limit refugee children entering UK
The Home Secretary is accused of unlawfully setting limits to numbers of unaccompanied child refugees accepted into the UK.
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Home Secretary apologises for DNA tests on immigrants
The Home Secretary Sajid Javid has apologised after it emerged that the government had been illegally requiring immigrants to provide DNA samples as part of their visa applications.
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Police commissioners warn Home Secretary a ‘no deal’ Brexit could pose substantial public safety risk
Police and Crime Commissioners have written to the Home Secretary warning that a no-deal Brexit could pose a substantial risk to public safety. Their letter warns that officers could face a “significant loss of operational capacity” if Britain crashes out of the EU next March without a deal. It also urged the Home Office to…
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Home Secretary relaxes law to allow medicinal cannabis on prescription
The recent number of emotive cases involving children who are unable to get legal prescriptions for the cannabis derived medicines they need, prompted an outcry of public sympathy. Today, the Home Secretary Sajid Javid responded with the announcement that he’s relaxing the laws to allow medicinal cannabis to be made available on prescription. The decision…
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Home Secretary apologises to family of Windrush migrant
The Home Secretary has apologised unreservedly to the family of a Windrush migrant and has offered to meet them. This programme has seen Sajid Javid’s letter on the day an inquest opened into Dexter Bristol’s death. He came to Britain from Grenada as a child in the 1960s. But he died jobless and fearing deportation,…
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Home Secretary uses special powers to grant medical cannabis oil licence for 12-year-old with epilepsy
A 12-year-old boy with severe epilepsy can now be treated with medicinal cannabis oil – after the Home Secretary used special powers to grant a licence. Charlotte Caldwell said they had ‘achieved the impossible’ after Billy’s six month supply was returned by customs officials who’d seized it at Heathrow. Paul McNamara reports.
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Sajid Javid appointed Home Secretary after Windrush scandal
Early this morning, Sajid Javid became Britain’s first Muslim Home Secretary. Theresa May conducted a hurried mini-reshuffle after Amber Rudd finally gave in to calls for her resignation over the Windrush scandal. The final straw proved to be her ignorance of Home Office targets for deporting illegal immigrants.
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Home Secretary’s denials questioned after letter leak
Amber Rudd’s denials over removal targets are thrown into question by a letter she wrote to Theresa May, last year. And we speak to Edmond Graham who came to the UK from the Jamaica – he lost his job and his home while fighting threats of deportation.
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Home Secretary under pressure to resign over Windrush Scandal
Senior Conservatives have been rushing to Amber Rudd’s defence after she faced fresh calls to resign over the Windrush controversy. The Home Secretary was again forced to apologise last night after it emerged her office had been sent a document detailing targets to remove illegal immigrants.
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Home Secretary says police cuts not to blame for rise in violence
Amber Rudd has insisted that police cuts are not to blame for rising violence – a day before a new government strategy to tackle street crime is unveiled. The Offensive Weapons Bill for England and Wales will impose tougher restrictions on the sale of knives and corrosive substances online. It also proposes stopping knives from…
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Former Home Secretary Alan Johnson on social housing post-Grenfell
Beyond of course, the enormous personal tragedies of the Grenfell fire, one of its wider legacies has been to shine an unforgiving light on Britain’s social housing. The former Home Secretary Alan Johnson grew up in the slums of North Kensington, eventually bulldozed to make way for Grenfell. For his generation, a council home was…
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Interview with Home Secretary Amber Rudd
We’re joined now by the Home Secretary Amber Rudd.
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Has Theresa May been a good Home Secretary?
One insider describes her as a formidable negotiator with great attention to detail – someone who, perhaps surprisingly, “cares more about the little people than the big ones”.
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Former home secretary Leon Brittan dies after cancer battle
Former home secretary Leon Brittan dies of cancer. His final years saw controversy over his handling of a dossier into alleged child abuse, and he faced police questioning over a sexual allegation.
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Ex-Home Secretary Leon Brittan ‘questioned over rape claims’
Former Home Secretary Leon Brittan has been quizzed by police over claims he raped a young woman, according to reports.
