Theresa May

Immigration laws will be strengthened to prevent the human rights act from protecting foreign criminals, says the home secretary.

As Scotland Yard’s new commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe pledges to make the country’s biggest police force the “best in the world,” his appointment still rankles with some officers across the country.

Bernard Hogan-Howe, a former Merseyside police chief renowned for his tough tactics against gangs, is named the new head of Scotland Yard.

The Government says it will not be seeking further powers to close down social media or telecoms networks following riots across England.

New figures show net migration has risen by 21 per cent to 239,000 as Political Editor Gary Gibbon recalls an immigration pledge by David Cameron labelled “barmy” by critics.

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”.

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.

David Cameron flies home to deal with a massive escalation of unrest in London as rioters loot shops and set buildings on fire. The trouble has spread to Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol.

Cuts to the police budget could compromise the safety of the public, warns the head of the Association of Chief Police Officers, Sir Hugh Orde.

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.’

The policeman blinded in a shotgun attack by Raoul Moat makes a dramatic intervention into the debate on police cuts. Theresa May says she is doing everything she can to protect frontline jobs.

As the first annual limit on non-EU migrant workers comes into force, the Home Office admits that on 2009 figures the legislation would have reduced net immigration by a mere 6,300.

Theresa May announces the Government is cracking down hard on sham colleges and bogus courses – but Labour says plans to cut visas for foreign students are ‘a con’.