migrants

In the Political Fourcast, Lord Jo Johnson and MP Margaret Hodge join Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Gary Gibbon to discuss planes and plots as Rishi Sunak tries to get asylum-seeker flights in the air.

Ministers have admitted that their new illegal migration policy will have to deter nearly four in 10 small boat crossings before it saves money for the taxpayer.

On a visit to Coventry, the Chancellor said it showed the economy had “recovered sharply” – but weaker international demand for British goods means manufacturing has continued to slide.

They have left everything they knew and they have risked everything they have: now thousands of migrants trying to make it to Europe are getting caught up in the terrifying grip of people smuggling and extortion. This programme has obtained dramatic footage, captured by filmmaker Marco Salustro, showing the gangs who intercept migrant vessels at sea…

A migrant camp housing 1,500 people outside Dunkirk has been destroyed in a fire. The blaze followed a series of fights between different migrant groups and, later, clashes between security forces and groups inside the camp.

Six Lithuanian migrant workers have been awarded a landmark £1 million compensation payout – against Kent gangmasters, after they were made to work on farms supplying eggs to some of the country’s leading household brands.

World leaders are gathering at the United Nations General Assembly in New York to discuss the refugee crisis. Our Political Editor Gary Gibbon travelled there with the Prime Minister, Theresa May.

Forty per cent of Afghan civilians say they’d leave the country if they could – fleeing persecution, war and deprivation in greater numbers now than at any time since the Taliban were ousted. But, unlike Syrians and Iraqis, the European Union classes most as economic migrants. Our Asia Correspondent, Jonathan Miller, has been to Herat…

Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson joins one group of refugees taking the momentous decision to leave Lebanon for Turkey. The first ‘straightforward’ step of their epic journey into Europe.