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Asylum Claims Hit Record High

Reporter USAugust 22, 2025

111,000 people wanted the right to stay in the UK in the year to June

Six new members join Reform UK’s party board

Reporter USAugust 22, 2025

Reform UK has added six new members to the party’s decision-making board, including Greater Lincolnshire Mayor Dame Andrea Jenkyns and former chairman Zia Yusuf. Three of the board members, Gawain Towler, Darren Grimes and Dan Barker, were elected by the party’s membership in a vote with a turnout of 67,255. Dame Andrea, Yusuf and Paul […]

Government seeks to appeal Epping asylum hotel legal ruling

Reporter USAugust 22, 2025

The government is seeking to appeal the High Court’s refusal to allow it to intervene in the case of a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Epping. Earlier this week, Epping Forest District Council was granted a temporary injunction to stop people being placed at the Bell Hotel. The court refused an last minute […]

What is it worth and who can claim it?

Reporter USAugust 22, 2025

BBC The government is targeting people who continue to claim child benefit after leaving the UK, in a move it hopes will save hundreds of millions of pounds. More families have been able to claim the benefit after the limit on earnings was raised, and it is currently paid to 6.9 million households. Who can […]

Child benefit crackdown on claims from abroad after £17m saved

Reporter USAugust 22, 2025

Leila Nathoo Political correspondent Becky Morton Political reporter Getty Images The government is planning a crackdown on people who continue to claim child benefit after leaving the UK, in a move it expects to save £350m over the next five years. Claimants who are outside the UK for more than eight weeks will generally no […]

MSP Jeremy Balfour resigns from Conservatives

Reporter USAugust 22, 2025

Glenn Campbell BBC Scotland political editor PA Media Jeremy Balfour has been MSP for Lothian since 2016 Scottish Conservative MSP Jeremy Balfour has quit the party saying it has “fallen into the trap of reactionary politics” under Russell Findlay’s leadership. Balfour, who was the Tory spokesperson on social justice, said he would sit as an […]

James Harding calls for BBC to be protected in changing media landscape

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Edinburgh TV Festival James Harding has been editor of the Times and the BBC’s director of news, and now runs Tortoise Media The BBC should be protected from “political interference”, the corporation’s former director of news has said, after the culture secretary appeared to call for the resignation of director-general Tim […]

Iver landfill data centre subject of legal action by campaigners

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Danny Fullbrook & Louise Parry BBC News, Buckinghamshire Greystoke The plans for the landfill site in Iver had been rejected by Buckinghamshire Council in June 2024 (artist impression) Campaigners are taking legal action over the government’s decision that a large data centre should be built. In June 2024, Buckinghamshire Council rejected plans for the facility […]

Reform UK confirms new Leicestershire County Council deputy

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Laura Hammond BBC News, East Midlands BBC Reform UK swept away the Tories’ majority on the council on 3 May Two new councillors have been appointed to Leicestershire County Council’s cabinet after the authority’s former deputy leader was removed from his role. Reform UK’s Joseph Boam was also removed from his position as cabinet member […]

Former MP Dame Annette Brooke dies

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Dame Annette Brooke, who became the longest-serving female Liberal Democrat MP, has died aged 78. Dame Annette served the constituency of Mid-Dorset and North Poole in Parliament from 2001 to 2015 and was voted MP of the year in 2010. An economics teacher in Aylesbury and then Bournemouth, she was also a tutor with the […]

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Asylum Claims Hit Record High

Six new members join Reform UK’s party board

Government seeks to appeal Epping asylum hotel legal ruling

What is it worth and who can claim it?

Child benefit crackdown on claims from abroad after £17m saved

MSP Jeremy Balfour resigns from Conservatives

James Harding calls for BBC to be protected in changing media landscape

Iver landfill data centre subject of legal action by campaigners

Reform UK confirms new Leicestershire County Council deputy

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