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Labour-run councils consider legal challenges to asylum hotels

Injunction to remove people from Essex hotel leads to government considering other housing options

The Guardian - UK

Is the UK One Step Closer To Shutting Down Migrant Hotels? Brits Celebrate Closure of Essex Hotel

The High Court has ordered the closure of a migrant hotel in Essex, sparking celebration among locals and raising fresh questions about the future of asylum accommodation across the UK.

International Business Times UK

Labour braced for wave of legal action over migrant hotels as immigration crisis deepens

Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice urged residents to protest outside more migrant hotels to force councils to take legal action to ban asylum seekers

The Independent UK

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English councils consider legal bids to remove asylum seekers from hotels

Councils across England are considering legal challenges as the Government scrambles to draw up contingency plan for housing asylum seekers set to…

The National (Scotland)

Councils consider legal bids as ministers face Epping hotel ruling aftermath

Conservative and Reform UK-led authorities have said they were looking at their options to take similar action to Epping Forest District Council.

Evening Standard

UK Set For More Legal Challenges Over Migrant Hotels

Britain's government was considering Wednesday whether to appeal a court ruling blocking the housing of asylum seekers in a flashpoint hotel, as it scrambled to come up with contingency plans for the migrants.

International Business Times

More councils in England plan to challenge asylum hotels after Essex ruling

Broxbourne council leader hopes to ‘go down same path’ as Epping, which has blocked people being housed in hotel

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Security minister refuses multiple times to outline alternative to asylum hotels

Labour is in turmoil after more councils consider launching legal challenges over the government’s use of asylum hotels.

The Independent UK

Minister brands Farage ‘the very worst’ kind of politician over asylum hotel claims

Dan Jarvis said ‘the very worst’ politicians try to drive people apart

The Independent UK

Government working on contingency plans after ruling on Epping migrant hotel

Ministers are now bracing for further legal challenges from councils across the country.

Evening Standard

Government’s deal with Iraq to return illegal migrants will ‘deter small boat arrivals’, says Starmer – as it happened

Prime minister says ‘strengthened partnership with Iraq will secure our borders’ as more councils in England plan to challenge asylum hotels

The Guardian - UK

UK Government strikes returns deal with Iraq in latest migration crackdown

The UK Government has agreed a new deal with Iraq to return illegal migrants as part of wider moves to limit small boat crossings

The National (Scotland)

Migrant returns deal struck with Iraq in latest bid to deter small boat Channel crossings

The deal will allow for the ‘swift’ return of failed asylum seekers, the Home Office said

Evening Standard

Government strikes returns deal with Iraq in latest bid to deter small boats

The agreement signed during a visit to the UK by Iraq’s deputy prime minister will allow for the ‘swift’ return of failed asylum seekers.

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The Independent UK

Government signs deal with Iraq to return illegal migrants in latest bid to deter small boats

It comes after an £800,000 deal last year with Baghdad to help the country crack down on smuggling networks

Evening Standard

Hong Kong police warrants ‘act of transnational repression’ – minister

Security minister Dan Jarvis said the UK would not tolerate ‘these acts of transnational repression’.

Al Jazeera

UK, US blast Hong Kong rewards for help to catch activists overseas

Hong Kong’s national security police announces arrest warrants for 19 pro-democracy activists mostly living in UK.

Al Jazeera

UK moves to reinstate extradition deal with Hong Kong despite concerns

The UK Home Office says the move will prevent criminals from ‘evading justice’; critics say it legitimizes oppression.

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Evening Standard

Ministers urged to explain plans which could re-establish Hong Kong extraditions

The move could put at risk dissident Hongkongers who have fled to the UK to avoid recrimination by the Chinese government, a senior Tory warned.

Evening Standard

UK facing ‘very significant’ volume of cyber attacks, security minister warns

Dan Jarvis said new measures send a signal to cyber criminals that ransom demands will not be tolerated.

The Independent UK

UK hit with ‘completely unacceptable’ cyber attacks, says security minister

Dan Jarvis says new measures send a signal to cyber criminals that ransom demands will not be tolerated.

The Guardian - UK

UK government to ban public bodies from paying ransoms to hackers

Measure intended to send message to international cybercriminals ‘that the UK is united in fight against ransomware’

Evening Standard

Plan to strip citizenship from ‘extremists’ during appeals clears Commons

Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy said certain communities will be ‘alarmed’ by the legislation which she said creates ‘second-class citizens’.

The Guardian - UK

Iran’s threat to UK on a par with Russia’s, security report finds

Parliamentary committee says UK is priority target for cyber and physical attacks as well as assassinations

The Independent UK

MPs back proscribing direct action group Palestine Action as terror organisation

Legislation passed in the Commons on Wednesday as MPs voted 385 to 26, majority 359 in favour of proscribing the group under the Terrorism Act 2000.

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