Charities warn the changes will ‘push more desperate people into the arms of smugglers in an effort to reunite with loved ones’

Keir Starmer has attempted to take back control of his government with a mini-reshuffle on MPs return from recess. But tension at the top of the party has not gone away, political editor David Maddox reports

Some 600,000 asylum seekers could be deported in the first parliament of a Reform UK government, Reform leader indicates

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party, has pledged that if he wins the next election he will leave the European human rights convention and detain and deport anyone who arrives in the country illegally

The former party chairman said he thinks it is ‘quite reasonable’ to hand money to the regime in order to agree a returns agreement

Teachers will be asked to leave their politics at the classroom door in order to make sure pupils are not swayed on how to vote

Exclusive: Dominic Grieve has issued a scathing critique of Reform’s immigration plans ahead of a speech by the party’s leader

Chaos facing Starmer comes after Epping council granted temporary injunction blocking migrants from being housed at The Bell Hotel

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has defended Kemi Badenoch’s call for Conservative councils to consider legal challenges against the use of hotels to house asylum seekers.

Currently, pensioners can take out a quarter of their pension pot tax-free, with a cap of £268,000