
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: Europeans to be allowed to move to the UK for more than a year under EU youth mobility scheme:
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A minister has opened the door for a reciprocal youth mobility scheme that could add to net migration figures despite concerns from the Home Office
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How the legalisation of cannabis in states across the US has led to an "exponential" rise in volumes of the drug seized at the UK border:.
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Border Force credits the increase in drugs to changes in American law. It made 34,446 seizures last year, totalling nearly 80,000kg
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Man United finished top of the league this season. for the number of fans arrested. Finally something to brag about. They beat West Ham fans to the title (the Hammers have recorded the highest number of arrests for the previous three seasons).
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RT @Steven_Swinford: Inside Operation Rubific by @larisamlbrown. How a regular soldier inadvertently put the lives of thousands of Afghans….
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RT @Lou_obrien19: Wednesday's TIMES: Revealed: Cover-up after leak risked lives of 100,000 Afghans #TomorrowsPapersToday .
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RT @larisamlbrown: BREAKING: The British military is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death - and succ….
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Tommy Shelby is a Blue, he hates Villa: . Excellent interview by @alexfarber with Stephen Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, about his upcoming @BCFC series on Amazon Prime. The Blues are back!.
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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Inside the talks to secure a migrant returns deal with France.- How scrapping the Rwanda scheme was key to finally persuading France to talk about a migrant returns deal.- "They saw it as a Millwall strategy — you’ll hate us but we don’t care". Read more:.
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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Excl: Small boat migrants working illegally in the UK will be thrown out of their taxpayer-funded hotel and lose other support under plans being drawn up by the Home Secretary: .
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The tactic, used for the first time, is a ‘precursor’ to a change of French maritime law that will allow officers greater powers to prevent Channel crossings
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RT @larisamlbrown: Afghans find out today from a buried line in a Home Office document that they have until 3pm today to apply for sanctuar….
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Undercover on Palestine Action's recruitment drive ahead of being proscribed a terror group: .
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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There are two camps emerging in Labour's attempts to reform the ECHR. One that believes the best route is through multilateral negotiations and the second who believe the most effective way is to act unilaterally: .
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The human rights lawyer in No 10 will have plenty of backing within Labour if he goes after an issue that has dogged previous governments
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RT @PaulBrandITV: EXCL: Fugitives wanted for murder and child rape are being allowed to stay in Britain. We went undercover to expose how….
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British courts are refusing the extradition of some fugitives due to claims they would be mistreated in foreign prisons, an ITV News investigation reveals. | ITV National News
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French police took a more active approach this morning as they pursued migrants into the water with tear gas, riot gear and batons . But they only managed to stop a few women and children. The majority - mainly men - managed to get through. Excl pix here:.
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Officers clash with migrants trying to reach England in waist-deep water as the French authorities are said to be testing new means of preventing Channel crossings
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78% of Channel migrants this year have been men. Since 2018, 71% have been men. Today, the only migrants who were stopped from crossing by French police were women & children: Yet No10 refuses to set the record straight after Darren Jones' false claim. .
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Officers clash with migrants trying to reach England in waist-deep water as the French authorities are said to be testing new means of preventing Channel crossings
No 10 refusing to correct untrue claim from Treasury minister Darren Jones that most Channel migrants are 'children, babies and women'. Home Office stats say they are 70% male. But apparently its fine for a minister to go on @bbcquestiontime and claim the opposite.
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RT @HugoGye: Reeves promises to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers within the current parliament.
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RT @georgegrylls: Our exclusive from March on plans to buy F-35As capable of carrying US nuclear bombs. There was a lot of backlash online….
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Countries such as Germany were spooked by the revelation that the US president had a kill switch that could ground their aircraft
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