UK interior minister plans to restrict use of tents by homeless
London, UK Reuters Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman said on Saturday she would propose new laws to limit the use of tents by homeless people, saying many of them see it as “a lifestyle choice”. In a post on X, Braverman, who is seen as a possible future leader of the governing Conservative Party, said […]
London police institutionally racist and sexist, report finds
London, UK Reuters London’s Metropolitan Police is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic and unable to police itself, an independent review said on Tuesday, heaping pressure on the Met’s new chief to reform Britain’s biggest police force. The review was commissioned by then-head of the Met, Cressida Dick, in 2021 after a serving officer was sentenced […]
Essay: Illegal immigration bill does more than ‘push the boundaries’ of international law
HELEN O’NIONS, an associate professor at Nottingham Law School, argues – in an article first published on The Conversation – that the new bill “rides roughshod” over domestic law, common law and the UK’s international human rights obligations…
Essay: The UK’s asylum system is in crisis, but the government – not refugees – is to blame
MELANIE GRIFFITHS, of the University of Birmingham, argues – in article first published on The Conversation – that, rather than “ineffective and cruel spectacles”, the UK needs a “functioning asylum system”…
UK to propose asylum ban on English Channel migrants
Birmingham, UK Reuters British interior minister Suella Braverman set out plans on Tuesday for new powers which would ban migrants who cross the English Channel from claiming asylum and said it was her “dream” to see a government flight deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda. The government has been under pressure to deal with the rising number […]
Ancestral ties: India avidly watching British leadership race
Mumbai, India Reuters Half a world away from the political drama in London, many Indians are closely following the twists and turns of who replaces Boris Johnson as British prime minister, curious to see how two candidates with Indian ancestry fare. Rishi Sunak, the bookmakers’ favourite to prevail, and Suella Braverman are campaigning for the […]