Shabana Mahmood has told MPs the 'one in, one out' Channel returns deal with France has cost £78 million so far, at £56,000 per migrant returned. Just 1,400 people have been sent back in 11 months, while 28,000 have crossed the Channel.
Vicky Richter · 16 September 2026An Oxfordshire village has voted to “leave” the UK in a symbolic referendum held against plans to accommodate up to 1,256 male asylum seekers at the former MoD Bicester site.
Vicky Richter · 16 September 2026The government calls it local government reorganisation. In the towns and villages on the wrong side of the new line, they call it a land grab. On Monday, 40,000 signatures arrived at Downing Street to make the point.
Vicky Richter · 15 September 2026A Congress debate in Brighton has put an awkward question inside Labour’s own trade union base: whether a government that wants more freedom over wages, public ownership, procurement and the cost of living should really be reopening the fight over EU and Single Market membership.
Vicky Richter · 15 September 2026Eighty-six years ago today, young men climbed into Hurricanes and Spitfires and took to the skies knowing that the survival of their country might depend upon what happened next. Today, September 15, Britain remembers them.
Claire Bullivant · 15 September 2026Andy Burnham is facing a co-ordinated nationalist challenge after Sinn Féin, the SNP and Plaid Cymru signed a pact in Cardiff declaring that Westminster has no right to block their nations’ “self-determination”. Michelle O’Neill said the Prime Minister would not be able to “hold back the tide”, while John Swinney claimed Burnham would be the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Vicky Richter · 15 September 2026Baroness Sherlock told the Lords that 200,000 families received more than £39,039 in state support in the financial year ending 2025, above the median full-time wage. The figure includes Universal Credit, tax credits, the state pension and PIP. The DWP spent £287.9bn on pensions and benefits last year, against £62bn for defence. And the published figures do not say who is receiving it.
Vicky Richter · 15 September 2026Ministers are weighing up to £200 of energy help for benefits claimants while mayors prepare to charge hotel guests, and taxpayer-funded asylum accommodation falls outside the levy. Who is shielded from rising costs, and who is left to pay, is the question.
Vicky Richter · 14 September 2026Leaders from the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin will sign a memorandum of understanding in Cardiff covering self-determination, energy, the economy, Europe and constitutional change.
Vicky Richter · 13 September 2026Great British PAC vows to keep fighting the Chagos surrender as ministers postpone a decision on the size of Britain's next-generation attack submarine fleet until 2028
Vicky Richter · 13 September 2026Steve Reed has warned that Britain will not become richer by making London poorer, in a striking intervention from a Labour MP who until recently sat in government. His criticism matters because it sharpens the central question hanging over Andy Burnham’s devolution agenda: whether it will create new growth across the country, or simply redistribute pressure and cost.
Vicky Richter · 12 September 2026England has moved further ahead of the rest of the UK in the latest OECD PISA 2025 study, while Wales remains the weakest of the home nations and Scotland continues to lag badly in maths. That is the central fact in a survey which tested more than 760,000 pupils across 91 countries and economies.
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