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Home secretary briefed ahead of David Miranda’s detention
Home Secretary Theresa May says she was briefed ahead of the possible detention of David Miranda, the partner of a Guardian journalist, at Heathrow airport.
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Tomlinson family: We want answers from home secretary
The family of Ian Tomlinson call for answers from the home secretary after PC Simon Harwood is cleared of his manslaughter during the G20 riots.
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Home secretary unveils ‘snooper’s charter’ to parliament
Despite vocal opposition, the Home Secretary Theresa May has unveiled plans to require records of internet use to be stored for a year to allow police and the security services to access them.
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Dewani extradition given go-ahead by Home Secretary
Shrien Dewani, accused of conspiring to kill his wife Anni while on their honeymoon in South Africa last year, has been cleared for extradition by Home Secretary Theresa May.
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Home Secretary considers new curfew powers after riots
Home Secretary Theresa May says she will consider giving the police new curfew powers as she calls for “urgent police reform” in the wake of England’s riots.
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Home Secretary announces plans to tackle gang violence
Theresa May says she will convene a task force to establish the scale of the problem of gang violence in the aftermath of the recent riots across England.
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Law enforcement response to Capitol siege ‘was botched from the get-go’ says former US Secretary of Homeland Security
Janet Napolitano was the US Secretary of Homeland Security during President Obama’s first term of office.
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Free football tickets not the same as ‘corruption’ of previous government says Trade Secretary
Speaking to us from the Labour party conference in Liverpool is Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds.
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Home Office told human rights lawyers that it could ignore Brook House inquiry
It was a landmark public inquiry that exposed inhumane and degrading treatment, frequent misuse of force and explicit racism towards vulnerable asylum seekers in immigration detention centres. A year on from the Brook House inquiry, the government has only implemented one of the 33 recommendations made by its chair Kate Eves. While she’s now accusing…
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Children in care being moved miles away from home
One big challenge for the new Education Secretary is the growing number of children in care, with the cost falling to cash-strapped local councils.
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Home Office under pressure to resettle stranded child migrants living in island camp
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is under serious pressure to resettle a group of Tamil migrants who’ve been stranded on a British-owned island in the middle of the Indian Ocean for more than a thousand days.
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NHS regulator ‘not fit for purpose’ says Health Secretary
The Health Secretary has announced a series of emergency measures after a damning review into the body which inspects NHS hospitals, GP surgeries and care homes in England.
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‘We’ve done exactly what we said we would do’ – Health Secretary
One major crisis facing the country that was notably absent from the King’s Speech was social care, despite its impact on the NHS.
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‘We will not be judged by the constraints and failures over the past 14 years’ – Science Secretary Peter Kyle
We are joined by Peter Kyle, newly appointed as the secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
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‘We want to turn Britain into the world’s first clean energy superpower’, says shadow environment secretary
Labour’s Steve Reed, who’s the shadow environment secretary, joins us in Westminster.