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‘Crushing blow for human rights’ as protesters guilty of terror-related offence

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.

21 Oct 2018

Trump pulls out of cold-war era nuclear weapons pact

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.

2 Aug 2018

Calls to reduce child citizenship fees which are ‘denying 120,000 of rights’

More than a hundred education leaders are calling on the Home Secretary to reduce Britain’s child citizenship fees, which a campaign group says are the highest in Europe. At a thousand pounds per child, registration costs ten times more than in Spain, France and Sweden. The chief inspector of borders and immigration has launched a…

26 Jul 2018

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…

5 Jul 2018

Inquest jury finds catalogue of failures by police after 2013 death of father

An inquest jury has found a catalogue of failures against a police force after a father died after being restrained by Surrey police under the Mental Health Act in 2013. Channel 4 News has obtained exclusive footage of what happened that night. Our Senior Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel reports.

28 Jun 2018

UK failed to question ‘inexcusable’ treatment of detainees by the US after 9/11, report claims

Our Senior Home Affairs Correspondent, Simon Israel, reports.

2 May 2018

Government announces Windrush review

The number of potential Windrush cases reported to a specialist Home Office unit has now risen to 3,000. The figures were revealed as Labour used a parliamentary debate to try to force the the government to release of all correspondence between ministers, officials and special advisers between May 2010 and 2018 relating to the Windrush…

26 Apr 2018

The Windrush scandal continues: 20 years trying to get a passport

Yesterday she said there were no immigration removal targets. Today the Home Secretary Amber Rudd admitted there were – but declared that what she called ”local” targets would now be abolished. Labour accused her of trying to blame officials – again demanding that she resign as the fallout over the Windrush scandal continues. The Home…

19 Apr 2018

Government taking ‘urgent action’ to help Windrush generation

They should be in no doubt of their right to remain: this from the Home Secretary tonight after a deal with Caribbean leaders over the Windrush fiasco. And a promise, finally, of security to those who came here as children and have lived here ever since. After talks with the High Commissioners from Barbados and St…

11 Mar 2018

Nerve agent attack: Salisbury diners told to wash possessions

A week after the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Salisbury, hundreds of people who went to the city’s Zizzi restaurant or the Mill pub have been told to wash their clothes and possessions. The risk is very low, but some members of the public want to know why the advice wasn’t issued earlier.

10 Mar 2018

Russian spy poisoning: more than 200 witnesses identified

The Home Secretary has given more details about the investigation into the attempted murder of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter – revealing that police are looking at more than 240 pieces of evidence. Following an emergency Cobra meeting on the suspected nerve agent attack in Salisbury, Amber Rudd said over 200 witnesses have been identified.

22 Feb 2018