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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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RT @jacksurfleet: Monday’s TIMES: Universities to lose cash if students claim asylum.#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Tomorrow's Times front page: . - Universities face foreign students recruitment ban under government plans to crackdown on students claiming asylum:. And:. - Starmer faces fresh Labour backlash over Palestinian statehood: .
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The new far-right group attempting to buy up land to build white-only communities across Britain . And urging supporters to infiltrate Reform UK to install fascists in positions of power. The Woodlander Initiative already has two plots in Wales:.
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A far-right group has raised £162,000 to create racially exclusive settlements as its leader seeks to create enclaves across Britain
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Excl: Pro-Palestine groups are planning a 'Siege on Labour' day on Monday. An 8-page 'toolkit' urges all 'solidarity groups' across the UK to target Labour MPs, councillors and staff to force the party to take an even tougher stance against Israel:.
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The Palestinian Youth Movement has called for a national day of action against the Labour Party and its staff for being ‘directly complicit in the genocide’ in Gaza
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RT @AlfieTobutt: THE TIMES: 1 in 8 of all prisoners were born overseas #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Excl: Some of Britain’s most prominent lawyers have warned Starmer that his pledge to recognise Palestine will break international law. Lord Pannick, who represented the government against claims the Rwanda scheme breached international law, is among 40 peers who have written to
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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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Matt Dathan
16 days
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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thetimes.com
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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Matt Dathan
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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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Matt Dathan
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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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Matt Dathan
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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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Matt Dathan
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Macron says the one-in, one-out migrant returns deal will only be implemented once "legal verifications" have been carried out by the two countries and the EU. This does suggest that Starmer's timeframe of implementing the scheme "in the coming weeks" will be rather challenging.
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Matt Dathan
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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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Matt Dathan
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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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Matt Dathan
2 months
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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thetimes.com
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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