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The controversial austerity-era policy is set to be raised at a meeting of the party's top team on Tuesday with a Shadow Cabinet source saying: 'A lot of us are deeply troubled by it'

The Shadow Home Secretary has accused the Government of being "disjointed" and "disorganised" around national security as she pledged new laws to tackle extremism if Labour comes to power

Rishi Sunak is under intense pressure to drop the controversial project after top judges last month ruled it was unlawful because the central African nation isn't a safe place to send refugees

The landmark ruling comes after more than 14 months of deadlock since it was first unveiled by former Home Secretary Priti Patel last year

Recent victories in retail, most notably at clothing chain Next where female workers complained they are paid between £2 and £14 an hour less than men, could be a £100million triumph

The Labour frontbencher has written to the Honours and Appointments Secretariat calling on officials to 'set aside any traditional timescales between honours' to honour the rugby league legends

Labour’s blast came as official figures showed 606,000 more people came to the UK than left last year, despite Conservative pledges to slash numbers

Labour demanded an urgent investigation into the Home Secretary after it emerged she had asked civil servants to arrange a one-to-one speed awareness course in order to avoid a fine or points on her license

Ministers have announced plans to clamp down on 'spoofing' calls used to impersonate UK phone numbers and allow banks to delay suspicious transactions for longer

A Freedom of Information request has revealed that over 500 complaints have been made about Met staff behaviour on Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter

'Zombie knives' are weapons which are particularly dangerous, often having serrated edges. Our reporter, posing as a 17-year-old, was offered four 40 inch weapons for £55

Labour has criticised the Government for 'dragging their heels' after Suella Braverman launched a consultation on new laws giving police greater powers to act if they find zombie knives and machetes in private homes

Priti Patel boasted it would be 'biggest overhaul of our immigration system in decades' - but 12 months later Labour's Yvette Cooper has dismissed it as a 'Tory con'

Data from YouGov reveals 57% believe leading politicians should show more compassion, compared with 9% who say they are already too compassionate

Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper accused the Tories of empty rhetoric on antisocial behaviour while there are so few police on the beat to take enforcement action or prevent crime

Bartlomiej Glanda, 28, fled his homeland in 2019 after being convicted of a sex attack, and he set up home in North London before a court ruled in favour of extraditing him

Only 22% of 1,500 voters quizzed online think the controversial policy will be a deterrent

Writing exclusively for The Mirror, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says that too few crimes are investigated or solved, while serious violence has gone up and confidence in police has fallen

Rishi Sunak hailed a breakthrough in the UK's relationship with France after the first summit between the two nations in five years - but was unable to secure the return agreement the government desperately wants

Labour claims that failure to negotiate return agreements with countries like France, and new restrictions under the Illegal Immigration Bill will leave tens of thousands of people holed up in hotels "indefinitely"

The Home Secretary has unveiled controversial legislation aimed at tackling the number of people who arrive in the UK by small boat - but she conceded that there may be some legal wrangling to come

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures reveal that 160,919 people were waiting for an initial decision on their asylum claim at the end of December - up 60% from a year earlier

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper accused the Tories of allowing criminal gangs to deal drugs “on the streets, in town centres and even outside schools” as she promised to tackle hotspots

Penny Mordaunt suggested Lancashire Police's revelations about Nicola Bulley's medical history may have been 'sexist', amid ongoing anger at the force for its handling of the case

According to the Ministry of Justice, only 71,138 community sentences were handed out in 2021 - down from 189,333 in 2010