Matt Dathan
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Journalist | Home Affairs Editor @TheTimes | Tweeting in a personal capacity | Campaigning for @DSAInfo | From Stourbridge | #BCFC fan
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Joined February 2011
Excl by @MaxKendix: A man who was freed from prison under Labour's early release scheme has been charged with murder It's the most serious offence alleged to have been committed by a prisoner freed under the government's SDS40 early release scheme
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More than 38,000 offenders were freed under the government’s early release scheme between September last year
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EXC: A man who was freed from prison under Labour’s early release scheme has been charged with murder https://t.co/F8Qh8cXXYk
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More than 38,000 offenders were freed under the government’s early release scheme between September last year
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Migrants removed to France under the one-in, one-out scheme are trying to re-enter the UK because France is refusing to house them, according to their lawyers. The Home Office sent another group today but has stopped disclosing regular numbers: https://t.co/Px5OLNt88D
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Asylum seekers deported under one in, one out deal are being left homeless by the French authorities, legal sources claim, fuelling attempted returns
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Net migration could fall to as low as +70,000 next year, according to this analysis of government visa changes by James Bowes for @UKandEU: UK in a changing Europe: Home https://t.co/PAcKYXHt1C
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James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
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New stats show that 38,042 prisoners were released from jail under Labour's early release scheme (SDS40) between September & June. That's 129 per day.
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The Chancellor has broken the law... Top scoop by @HarriLine 👇
EXC Rachel Reeves has broken housing regulations by unlawfully renting out her family home without a licence after entering Downing Street: Chancellor faces ethics probe
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Latest podcast from @thetimes: @ManveenRana and I look at Labour's plans to end the use of asylum hotels:
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The government has announced plans to move migrants out of hotels and into accommodation on military barracks. The same plan Labour opposed when put forward by the Conservatives in 2023. What’s b...
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Excl: Labour's first military sites to house small boat migrants will be Cameron Barracks in Inverness and the Crowborough army training camp in East Sussex: https://t.co/PwbUU6sLj5
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HMP Chelmsford has history with releasing prisoners in error Two years ago the prison released a fraudster after receiving an email claiming to be from the Royal Courts of Justice instructing the prison to release him. Turned out to be completely fake: https://t.co/lqklGJJHuN
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Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed by HMP Chelmsford. Prison officers there were fooled in 2023 by a fake email ordering the release of an inmate
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Excl: Hadush Kebatu is being held in HMP Wormwood Scrubs in south west London until his deportation later this week: https://t.co/lqklGJJ9Ff
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Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed by HMP Chelmsford. Prison officers there were fooled in 2023 by a fake email ordering the release of an inmate
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Excl: Starmer's digital ID plans at risk of unravelling because of Britain's commitments under the common travel area with Ireland. Home Office officials have told ministers that proposals for the new checks “will not work" without changes to the agreement. Britain’s
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PM’s proposal would require Irish citizens to have a UK digital ID instead of just a passport as required under the common travel area agreement
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It also found the home secretary spent “an hour a day” considering an estimated 4,000 warrants to allow MI5 and the National Crime Agency (NCA) to use invasive powers such as phone tapping and internet tracking.
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The unredacted version of Nick Timothy's excoriating Home Office review says MI5, GCHQ and MI6 are "failing to keep pace" with threats to national security. It says decisions often end in deadlock because of competing interests of MI5 & MI6 Excl by @GeorgeGreenwood and me:
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An inquiry that prompted Shabana Mahmood to say department is ‘not fit for purpose’ also warned GCHQ and security services were failing to keep pace with threats
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Britain’s security service MI5 and foreign intelligence service MI6 are “failing to keep pace” with threats to national security and not cooperating properly, redacted parts of a damning internal Home Office report warn. With @matt_dathan
https://t.co/nI1lKNo8cp
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An inquiry that prompted Shabana Mahmood to say department is ‘not fit for purpose’ also warned GCHQ and security services were failing to keep pace with threats
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Epping migrant spotted on Chelmsford High Street after mistakenly being released from prison. View the video of him chatting to a group of men in the middle of a busy street and read more developments about the extraordinary story here: https://t.co/ILksLYhgHS
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Police say Hadush Kebatu, who assaulted a schoolgirl, was last seen in Dalston, east London, hours after being freed in error on Friday
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I visited the Bulgaria-Turkey border to see how it's become a key battleground in efforts to tackle the small boats crisis Since Bulgaria joined Schengen in January, it's become an even more crucial point to detect the dinghies being used in the Channel: https://t.co/F4rCGKnpBh
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At the ‘gateway to Europe’ 1,600 miles from Calais, police — and a British-trained sniffer dog — are seizing rubber dinghies used by people smugglers
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Excl: UK seeks to strike one-in, one-out deals with Germany, Netherlands & Belgium - matching the France deal: https://t.co/9vIzMTX1TO
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Shabana Mahmood is understood to be continuing the efforts of her predecessor, Yvette Cooper, to deport small boat migrants to the three Calais Group countries
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New: Home Office says it could take "months" before the national grooming gangs inquiry starts. This is because of the "loss of the leading candidate" Jim Gamble, which has left the Home Office with nobody left who it wants to appoint.
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Riot Platforms Reports Third Quarter 2025 Financial Results and Strategic Highlights. - Record quarterly revenue of $180.2 million - Net income of $104.5 million, or $0.26 diluted EPS - Adjusted EBITDA of $197.2 million - Announces initiation of 112 MW of core and shell for data
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