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people arriving via small boats crossing the Channel. Afghans were the most common nationality arriving by small boat in the year ending June 2025, with the number of Afghan arrivals at 6,360, 18% higher
many of them children or grandchildren of refugees from the Nazis, who once saw the UK as a haven from antisemitism - she says conversations have shifted from neighbourhood chat to more existential questions. "There aren
many people recognised that legal migration was important to sectors such as healthcare and hospitality. Director of Pendine Park, Mario Kreft, said the sector would be "lost" without migrant workers. "We have 850 staff. About
UK in the polls. Mahmood told MPs in November that the Home Office was in “active negotiations” with several countries, but no deals have been confirmed. The last government’s plans to send people arriving
migration into the UK. Separately, the Home Office publishes its quarterly asylum figures. 9.30am: Peter Kyle, the businesss secretary, takes questions in the Commons. 10.30am: Steve Reed, the communities secretary, gives a speech
lasted for 42 hours,” Dewar says. The interruption outlasted his five-hour emergency backup battery. “If I had had a heart attack there is damn all I could have done about it, except compose myself
migration clear, given the scale of the changes that Mahmood is pushing through. She set out a major package of changes earlier this year that included scrapping [permanent refugee status](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/01/shabana-mahmood-to-limit-refugees-to-30-months-in-uk) and removing
many already speak some English, have family here, or have cultural connections to Britain. Without safe routes to reach the UK, these men, women and children will be forced into dangerous and potentially deadly small
migration long after falling into disrepair. “It wasn’t providing any electricity; the old power house had sheep living in it,” said Hamish Moir, a river engineer from CBEC, a Scottish firm that provided technical
UK polls could have more local representatives than any other. For that to come to pass would mean a nasty night for Labour, and the Conservatives. The Tories were second last time round
UK aid last year was [at its lowest](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/09/uk-foreign-aid-spending-lowest-since-2008) since 2008. Norway, Germany and France have all slashed their aid budgets. In Yemen, where, after more than a decade of war, nearly half
many in the group - a former soldier who returned, wounded, from the Ukraine front line, in search of a role and purpose in Russian society. The man, who we are calling Dimitry, is glad