UNBELIEVABLE: 6 - Caught on Camera

Asylum seekers to face £10,000 accommodation bill before being granted settled status in UK

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says the current cost to support asylum seekers is ‘too high’

Evening Standard · Jun 29

Asylum seekers to be billed £10,000 to cover own support once they start earning money

Home Office plans slammed as ‘performative cruelty’ as campaigners warn new policy will fail to tackle the real issues in asylum system

The Independent UK · Jun 29

Asylum seekers to pay £10,000 towards cost of their own accommodation and support

Migrants need settled status, or Indefinite Leave to Remain, to be able to permanently live, work, and study in the UK.

Evening Standard · Jun 29

Starmer ‘taking advice’ on whether immigration minister broke government protocol – as it happened

Mike Tapp accuses home secretary of intimidation after calls for him to be sacked over unauthorised newspaper article

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26

Mike Tapp ‘won’t be intimidated over’ unsanctioned article about migration

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has called for the Prime Minister to dismiss Mr Tapp after he wrote an article about her migration overhaul.

Evening Standard · Jun 26

More military barracks to house asylum seekers after Home Office shuts more than 20 hotels

The news comes ahead of fresh immigration reforms to be introduced to parliament next week

The Independent UK · Jun 25

Charities condemn ‘arrogant’ plans to house asylum seekers at former military sites

Planning permission has been sought for three additional military sites

The Guardian - UK · Jun 25

Mahmood in standoff with No 10 after call to sack junior minister

The Home Secretary had called for the Prime Minister to dismiss Mike Tapp on Thursday.

Evening Standard · Jun 25

Mahmood asks Starmer to sack minister over immigration article

The minister said he had been working closely with officials to ‘develop a better approach than a blanket retrospective extension’.

Evening Standard · Jun 25

I won’t be intimidated to drop views, says minister after Mahmood calls for him to be sacked over migration comments

The extraordinary row broke out after Mike Tapp wrote an article asserting his ‘strong belief’ that foreign care workers already in the UK should not face extended waiting periods to qualify for indefinite leave to remain (ILR)

The Independent UK · Jun 25