The new Reform UK Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, Dame Andrea Jenkyns, suggests illegal immigrants should be housed in tents, not hotels.
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- Six of the 12 people on my train carriage are not wearing masks.
- Took me 46 attempted calls, then an hour and ten minutes on hold, just to get to speak to the receptionist at my doctor’s surgery this morning.
- 28 Conservative MPs and four peers have written to the Prime Minister calling for 'root-and-branch reform' of the asylum system which would prohibit claims from people who have passed through 'safe countries'.
- The Conservative MP Peter Bone has called for new legislation allowing deportations to Rwanda to be brought to the Commons immediately if current plans are stopped in the courts.
- 11 migrants in a boat were returned to France this morning after being spotted by a ferry.
- Denmark has confirmed that it is in talks with Rwanda about transferring asylum seekers there, following a similar move announced by the UK last week.
- The Home Secretary has told a Lords Committee that 70% of people arriving by small boats are single men who are effectively economic migrants and not genuine asylum seekers.
- Britain stands to lose the £120 million it has paid to Rwanda if the plan to deport migrants is ruled unlawful. Rwandan officials confirmed the country has received the entire initial payment for the agreement signed in April and that the funds are already ‘committed’.
- Sussex Police say 76 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who have gone missing from hotels in Brighton and Hove remain unaccounted for.
- 31 migrants in three boats have been returned to France - after they called for help when they got into difficulty in the Channel overnight.
