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Government considers making ketamine a class A drug after record use recorded

Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson will write to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs asking whether its classification should be changed.

Evening Standard

Non-Europeans visiting UK without visa will need digital permits from Wednesday

The Home Office is extending the electronic travel authorisation (ETA) system, which was first introduced in November 2023.

Evening Standard

UK’s new ETA travel permit scheme begins for non-Europeans – here’s what you need to know

The digital permit scheme to enter the UK will extend to all travellers from 2 April

The Independent UK

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Clearing the UK’s asylum backlog has led to rising refugee homelessness

New figures show the number of small boat arrivals to the UK in 2024 was up 25% on the previous year. While public attention remains on how people get to the UK, less discussed is what happens to them once they arrive and are later granted refugee status. The reality…

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Andy Burnham defends Greater Manchester inquiry into grooming gangs

The Mayor of Greater Manchester commissioned an independent review in 2017 to consider allegations made in BBC documentary The Betrayed Girls.

Evening Standard

Elon Musk’s attacks on Jess Phillips a ‘disgraceful smear’, Streeting says

The billionaire has criticised the Labour Government’s handing of child sexual exploitation.

Evening Standard

Home Office accused of spending £10,000 on lavish dinner at Searcys in The Gherkin

Civil servants reportedly received special permission to use the government’s Procurement Card to host the lavish gala for their Italian counterparts in November

Evening Standard

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UK rollout of eVisas could leave non-EU migrants ‘vulnerable’

Home Office is issuing digital visas without completing necessary checks, Freedom of Information quest reveals

The Guardian - UK

About 280 contractor jobs cut after Labour ends Rwanda asylum scheme

Redundancies follow abandonment of previous government’s plans to send asylum seekers to east Africa

The Guardian - UK

Will there be a new grooming gangs inquiry and what did the previous one find?

Labour government facing pressure over its response to grooming gangs

The Independent UK

Why are Elon Musk and Kemi Badenoch calling for a grooming scandal inquiry and why is Labour rejecting it?

The background to the inquiries that have been done and why the Home Office Minister has refused calls for a fresh investigation into historic child sexual abuse

Evening Standard

Firm led by ex-UK envoy on ethics made £13m on not-for-profit visa services

Cloud Bai-Yun was asked to resign from Ecctis, which runs language and qualifications tests for UK visa applicants

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk claims King should dissolve Parliament in fresh attack on Starmer

Tech billionaire continues social media criticism of PM over handling of historic child abuse in Oldham

The Independent UK

Elon Musk calls on King to dissolve Parliament over grooming gangs

The tech billionaire has continued his social media criticism of Sir Keir Starmer for the Government’s handling of the UK’s ‘rape gangs scandal’.

Evening Standard

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Home Office unveils new 'smash the gangs' measures as migrant Channel crossings up 25%

Almost 37,000 people crossed the Channel in small boats in 2024 - up by a quarter on the previous year

Evening Standard

Proposed phone bans for suspected people smugglers branded ‘weak’ by Tories

Measures aimed at cracking down on organised immigration crime are ‘laughable’, shadow home secretary Chris Philp said.

The Guardian - UK

DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death

Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases

The Independent UK

Suspected people smugglers to face travel and phone bans under new laws

Court orders to restrict the activity of people-smuggling suspects will be strengthened as part of draft legislation, the Government has said.

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Evening Standard

Channel crossings by migrants in 2024: Key numbers

Total arrivals are up 25% on 2023 but down 20% on 2022.

The Independent UK

Migrants crossing English Channel to UK surged by 25% in 2024, new figures show

2024 saw the second highest number of arrivals in a year since data on Channel crossings began in 2018

Evening Standard

Migrants reaching UK after crossing Channel in small boats up 25% in 2024

The last crossings of the year took place on December 29, when 291 people made the journey from France in six boats

The Independent UK

Mapped: Refugee homelessness on the rise in nearly 100 UK councils

Exclusive: ‘Frightening acceleration’ of refugee homelessness in some parts of the country, figures reveal

Evening Standard

Timeline of the Channel migrant crisis

More than 150,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in the last seven years, according to analysis by the PA news agency.

Evening Standard

Home Office spent thousands to get rid of bedbug infestation at Westminster HQ

The Home Office spent over £5,000 on sniffer dogs to investigate a bedbug infestation at its Westminster headquarters

The Independent UK

NI tourism sector braced for hit as full rollout of visa waiver scheme looms

The industry is concerned that international tour operators will omit the region from all-island itineraries if they have to apply for the new ETAs.

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