Media Reports Archive : January 2023


Stop migrant boats or face defeat, Suella Braverman tells Tories

The Tories will not be forgiven if they do not stop Channel migrant crossings, Suella Braverman has warned the party

31 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Hale asylum seeker hotel plans changed after MP's call

Plans to house 100 asylum seekers in a village hotel have been amended after pressure from the area's MP

31 Jan 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Boston and the tragedy of Brexitland

According to new polling by UnHerd, Boston remains the capital of Brexitland

31 Jan 2023 - Media Report: UnHerd
Modern slavery claim won't stop deportation of some illegal migrants

Foreign criminals and illegal migrants who claim to be victims of modern slavery face deportation

30 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Tory MP likens government to Titanic band in heated WhatsApp exchange about small boat crossings

A leading red wall Tory MP has compared the government to the 'band on the Titanic'

30 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
Asylum seekers missing from Hove hotel arrested for drug offences

Sussex Police said 76 minors housed in the city were currently missing

30 Jan 2023 - Media Report: BBC
French coastguard rescues 83 people from UK-bound small boats off the coast of Gravelines

Eighty-three migrants on two UK-bound small boats have been rescued in the Channel

30 Jan 2023 - Media Report: ITV
Migrant crisis: Plain clothes military officials patrolling UK beaches to catch small boats

It comes as almost 500 migrants were taken to Dover on Wednesday,

27 Jan 2023 - Media Report: GB News
EU toughens stance on non-EU countries taking back citizens denied right to stay

The draft reflects growing momentum to get tougher with non-EU governments – usually in the Middle East, Africa or Asia

27 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Guardian
Windrush report: Suella Braverman scraps three recommendations

Suella Braverman told MPs she would not proceed with the changes, including establishing a migrants' commissioner

27 Jan 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Migrant suspected of deadly machete church attack was served deportation order

Spain’s National Court is expected to launch an investigation into a suspected terrorist attack

27 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Rishi Sunak’s latest deal with France was blown out of the water when ten vessels with 442 migrants arrived on Sunday

Home Office officials predict a record-shattering 80,000 may arrive illegally in 2023

25 Jan 2023 - Media Report: The Sun
How did this killer asylum seeker hoodwink the authorities?

How did this killer asylum seeker hoodwink the authorities?

25 Jan 2023 - Media Report: The Spectator
DOUGLAS MURRAY The Home Office is not fit for purpose, DJ’s murder by asylum seeker comes from not caring who we let into country

Wanted by the Serbian authorities, where did Mr Abdulrahimzai head to next?

25 Jan 2023 - Media Report: The Sun
Killer had asylum claim rejected in Norway before UK accepted him as a 'child'

In December 2019 he claimed asylum in Poole, Dorset after falsely telling a Home Office interviewer he was just 14-years-old

25 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Migrant Channel crossings: busiest day off 2023 with 442 people entering the UK illegally on Sunday

Migrant Channel crossings: busiest day off 2023 with 442 people entering the UK illegally on Sunday

24 Jan 2023 - Media Report: GB News
More than 400 migrants risked freezing temperatures to cross the English Channel in dinghies yesterday on busiest day of illegal crossings already this year

Almost 450 migrants risked their lives in sub-zero conditions to illegally cross the English Channel over the weekend

24 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Killer had asylum claim rejected in Norway before UK accepted him as a 'child'

In December 2019 he claimed asylum in Poole, Dorset after falsely telling a Home Office interviewer he was just 14-years-old

24 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Rishi Sunak plans return of ‘hostile environment’ and faces bumpy road as strikes loom

Plans for tougher immigration laws to tackle the small boats crisis and deport migrants who arrive in Britain illegally

23 Jan 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Criminal gangs take children from asylum seekers’ hotel

Of the 600 unaccompanied children who have passed through the hotel in Brighton in 18 months, 136 were reported missing

23 Jan 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Illegal migrants crackdown will block bank accounts, rented homes and driving licences

The drive aims to progress Theresa May’s “hostile environment for illegal migration” that was paused in the wake of the Windrush scandal

23 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Border Force fears that the number of migrants making Channel crossings will nearly double from 45,000 to 80,000 this year

Sources in the Border Force say that as many as 80,000 could make the dangerous journey in 2023 – up from 45,000 last year

23 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
British rescue services accused of abandoning 38 Channel migrants in small boat

They said the migrants, who were “exhausted, afraid and frozen”, were rescued by the French

20 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Channel migrants: Truck drivers protest over rise in fines

Fines for lorry drivers caught at the Channel ports with illegal immigrants hiding in their vehicles are being increased

20 Jan 2023 - Media Report: BBC
UK Conservatives Consider Banning Videos Showing Illegal Migrant Crossings in a ‘Positive Light’

The potential amendment would make the posting of certain videos of illegals crossing the Channel an offence

20 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Breitbart
Robert Jenrick: We’re going to return as many Albanian migrants as possible

Mr Jenrick said all but a tiny fraction of “extreme” cases involving Albanian Channel migrants would be granted asylum

19 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
More than 100 migrants suffer freezing temperatures to get to UK while French coastguard pluck another 45 from the sea as Channel crossings resume

More than 100 migrants braved freezing temperatures in the English Channel on Tuesday to reach the UK in dinghies

19 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Ministers will tackle TikTok gangs who use social media to arrange dangerous Channel crossings for migrants

Ministers have pledged to tackle the 'TikTok traffickers' on social media

18 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Fines for lorry drivers who inadvertently bring stowaways into Britain will rise from £2,000 to £10,000 per migrant under Government plans to toughen rules

Fines for lorry drivers who inadvertantly bring stowaways into Britain will rise from £2,000 to £10,000 per migrant

18 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Dinghy crossings stop for two weeks after English Channel disaster claims four lives

Migrant small boat crossings have dropped off with none in two weeks following last month’s dinghy tragedy that claimed the lives of four people

18 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Evening Standard
Rwanda policy delayed further as High Court grants appeal against its legality

The Government’s Rwanda asylum policy faces further delays after the High Court allowed an appeal against its legality

17 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Britain is going to rejoin the EU far sooner than anyone now imagines

It is the Tories’ greatest betrayal: they have made such a hash of the project it is probably unsalvageable

17 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Suella Braverman personally thanks heroic fisherman who rescued sinking Channel migrants

The Home Secretary has written to Raymond Strachan, hailing his “deeply commendable” actions

16 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Robert Jenrick accused of ‘lynching’ Albania

The immigration minister has been accused of verbally “lynching” Albania

16 Jan 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Two thirds of tagged Albanian migrants have cut them off or tampered with them

Two thirds of the Albanian Channel migrants who were electronically tagged to prevent them absconding have cut them off or tampered with them

16 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Migrant camp riot: Staff 'sexually assaulted' and workers threatened with murder as anarchy broke out

Migrant centre staff claimed to have been sexually assaulted while others were threatened with kidnap and murder

16 Jan 2023 - Media Report: GB News
Shock as data show 30,000 asylum seekers have been limbo in Britain for more than six years as they wait for ruling on their status

More than 30,000 asylum seekers have been waiting in Britain for more than six years while their applications are heard

16 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Legal change to stop boat migrants claiming asylum

Changes to immigration law being considered by ministers would make it easier to declare Channel migrants inadmissible

12 Jan 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Moment balaclava-wearing Afghan asylum seeker, 21, 'runs away' after stabbing an aspiring Royal Marine to death 'in row over electric scooter', before telling police he was just 16 when they arrested him

This is the moment a balaclava-clad asylum seeker attempts to flee the scene after allegedly stabbing an aspiring Royal Marine to death

12 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Migrants claiming to be children to be X-RAYED to prove their age

Migrants claiming to be children in a bid to be granted asylum in the UK will have MRI scans and x-rays to check whether they’re lying

12 Jan 2023 - Media Report: GB News
The Times: MRI knee scans for migrants who say that they’re under 18

Migrants who claim to be children to raise their chances of being granted asylum in the UK will have to have MRI scans and x-rays

11 Jan 2023 - Media Report: The Times
University REJECTS proposal to house more than 1,000 asylum seekers in former student halls

Residents in an East Yorkshire village have been successful in their campaign to prevent former student halls being used to house migrants

11 Jan 2023 - Media Report: GB News
Cabinet minister hit by migrant hotel row as constituency village set to double in size

The Home Office has requisitioned a luxury five-star hotel to house illegal migrants who have come across the Channel in the Daventry constituency

11 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Express
Tony Sewell: My report was monstered and I was abused – sometimes racially. But it was right, and the Conservative agenda on race is getting going.

I’m often asked why there are not more black conservatives. The truth is we are many

10 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Conservative Home
Tory right warns Rishi Sunak: this is the calm before our storm over small boats and Brexit

Senior Tories are warning Rishi Sunak that he is enjoying the “calm before the storm”

9 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Guardian
Stopping small boats isn’t enough to turn the tide on immigration

The treatment received and incentives faced by refugees and immigrants are heavily influenced by government policy

9 Jan 2023 - Media Report: The Times
How much of a threat is Reform UK to the Tories?

The latest polling by YouGov shows an uptick in support in recent months, with 7 per cent of voters backing Reform

9 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Financial Times
Keir Starmer conned his party. What would stop him conning the country?

Over the weekend Keir Starmer said he would reform the NHS by “using the private sector”

9 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Rishi Sunak makes five promises on economy, health and immigration in keynote speech

Rishi Sunak has pledged to boost the economy, cut hospital waiting lists and stop migrant crossings in the Channel

5 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
What does Rishi Sunak's promise to stop the boats mean?

In his first major speech of 2023, prime minister Rishi Sunak twice pledged to 'stop the boats'

5 Jan 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Illegal immigrant from Romania who has been deported six times in seven years over string of theft and fraud offences is jailed for two years after returning to UK again

An illegal immigrant from Romania deported from the UK six times in the last seven years for theft and fraud offences has been jailed

5 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Migrant violence mars New Year's Eve in Germany

The German government is attempting to deflect from the uncomfortable truth that non-integrated migrants and asylum seekers tend to be at the centre

5 Jan 2023 - Media Report: UnHerd
First 44 migrants of 2023 cross Channel in small boat

Some 44 migrants have been brought to shore in the UK, in the first small boat crossing of the new year

4 Jan 2023 - Media Report: BBC
‘Infinite’ number of other migrants ready to replace Albanians

Stopping Albanians crossing the Channel will not solve the small-boats crisis because there is an “infinite” number of migrants from other countries

4 Jan 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Border Force intercepted first 44 migrants to cross the Channel in 2023 yesterday while French coastguard stopped a further 80 from reaching the UK

A Border Force vessel intercepted the 44 asylum seekers from one boat off the coast of Dover, Kent

4 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
First migrants to make dangerous Channel crossing this year arrive in Dover as British Border Force officers patrol French beaches in bid to clampdown on crisis

The first migrants to cross the Channel this year arrived in Dover

3 Jan 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
First migrants of 2023 cross the English Channel after RECORD BREAKING numbers last year

GB can exclusively reveal that the first Channel migrants of 2023 have arrived at Dover harbour in Kent

3 Jan 2023 - Media Report: GB News
Migrants crossing Channel reaches new record despite Rwanda deal

A RECORD 45,756 migrants crossed the Channel to Britain last year — up 60 per cent

3 Jan 2023 - Media Report: The Sun

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