All news on the topic: Home Office

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'I had my dreams of joining the police crushed over single unjustifiable reason'
A woman, who suffers from heavy periods, also known as menorrhagia, said Greater Manchester Police said she would have to defer her policing application for 12 months because of her condition
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Is home secretary Suella Braverman out of touch - have your say
With yet another controversial soundbite to add to an ever-growing list of high-profile clangers, home secretary Suella Braverman's political career often seems to be unravelling day by day. Now, we ask, is she out of touch?
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'Humanitarian disaster the world was dreading is now unfolding before our eyes'
As calls for a ceasefire in Gaza grow, Benjamin Netanyahu still shows no sign of ordering even a humanitarian pause to end the misery of those trapped
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Suella Braverman fails in bid to deport rapist who is ‘danger to the community’
After being jailed for five years and placed on the sex offender's register, the Upper Tribunal court allowed the now-freed man's appeal to remain in the UK on human rights grounds
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Home Office staff get £14.4m bonuses despite string of failings
The Home Office has had public failures including its inability to get a grip on the small boats crisis, including the shambles of its flagship policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda
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Passport officials handed £2.1million in bonuses as delays wreck holiday plans
Almost 10,000 bonuses were given to passport officials last year despite 360,000 people waiting longer than they should have done to get their documents, ruining travel plans
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Big budget Holocaust movie filming moves out of UK after Covid red tape row
One Life centres on Sir Nicholas Winton’s rescue of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, but movie bosses were forced to film London-based scenes in Prague
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Serious crime victims in some parts of UK wait 13 hours for police - full list
Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal a 'disturbing postcode lottery' in responses to grade two priority crimes - which include burglaries, missing persons and domestic incidents
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Rishi Sunak backs minister who went campaigning with flasher MP Peter Bone
The PM's spokesman refused to say whether it was inappropriate for DWP minister Tom Pursglove to be out door-knocking with Peter Bone, who is suspended over bullying and sexual misconduct claims
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MPs claim they've been blocked from visiting 'theatre of cruelty' asylum barge
Backbenchers Nadia Whittome and Lloyd Russell-Moyle will today speak to people forced onto the Bibby Stockholm in Dorset, which reportedly costs taxpayers £800 per person each night
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Burglaries in your area as 'crime catastrophe' means 76% go unsolved - full list
Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been accused of being 'asleep at the wheel' as new analysis found over three quarters of burglaries and car thefts went unsolved in 12 months
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Man can't go abroad as his surname is 'too rude' for passport
Kenny Kennard changed his surname legally for a joke but it seems to have backfired for him as he was unable to get a passport
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Doctor answers every parents' fears about laughing gas - and how to warn teens
Despite laughing gas getting banned next month, parents are still fearful their children will fall under its spell. Your Mirror has spoken exclusively to a doctor who answers all your questions about the drug - and advises on how best to warn your teenagers of the dangers
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Suella Braverman court threat over 'de facto prison' on World War Two base
Charity Care4Calais, which supports refugees, has announced it plans to take the Home Office to court in a battle over RAF Wethersfield
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Tories to shut 50 asylum hotels - but won't say where amid cynical rumours
Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said that 50 of an estimated 400 hotels used to house asylum seekers would be emptied by January, but was challenged over whether they'd be in marginal seats
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Shoplifting clampdown unveiled at last with specialist cops targeting gangs
At a summit in Downing Street, bosses at 13 major retailers including John Lewis, Tesco, Sainsbury's and the Co-Op, backed new plans to use facial recognition to identify violent and persistent offenders
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Home Secretary tells police to stop protesters shouting 'Jihad' on UK streets
Cabinet Minister Suella Braverman is expected to raise an incident at the weekend with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley when the pair hold talks later
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Shoplifters to be electronically tagged as Tories run out of space in prisons
Tory ministers have announced they will stop sending to people to jail for sentences shorter than a year, meaning thousands of shoplifters will no longer be locked up
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Protesters chanting 'jihad' on UK streets told they'll face 'full force of law'
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said the chants were "completely reprehensible" and "inciting terrorist violence", as he pledged that ministers would speak to Scotland Yard
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Asylum seeker due to return to Bibby Stockholm tells of fears of going back
The unnamed migrant is among dozens of men taken off the three-story Bibby Stockholm barge in August after deadly Legionella bacteria was found in the water supply
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POLL: Will the laughing gas ban will stop people using it
Laughing gas is one of the most commonly used drugs by 16 to 24-year-olds today, but it will be banned next month - with serious repeat offenders facing up to two years in jail. But do you think making it illegal will really stop people using it?
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Doctor fled Taliban with mum's scarf and few belongings to find safety in UK
Elham Barakzai escaped Afghanistan after the Taliban returned to power in 2021. She thanks the people who helped her to adapt to life in a strange new country and wants to help others by working as a GP
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Chilling miscarriages of justice - murdered mum, postmasters and showbiz death
Colin Stagg, the man who was wrongly accused of ­murdering young mum Rachel Nickell has revealed he is living in a homeless ­shelter after blowing £706,000 in compensation. It's not the only high profile miscarriage of justice to rock the UK
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Mum of four could be forced to pay £16,637 to stay in UK
Favour, 40, says she is struggling to afford basic essentials yet may need to pay a huge amount to stay in the UK with her four children after arriving in the country as a student
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Foreign criminal deportations fast-tracked in scramble to ease prisons crisis
Convicts including killers and rapists will be deported and banned from the streets in a new plan laid out today as ministers battle serious capacity issues in prisons