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Charles Hymas
@charleshymas
Home Affairs Editor, The Daily Telegraph. Ex-Sunday Times head of news/education corr. Author of Guide to the National Curriculum [email protected]
London, England
Joined June 2011
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    Britain should follow Australia’s example and send all Channel migrants back to France, says the country’s former Prime Minister. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/…
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    Plans to turn policing into an all-graduate profession risks denying experienced older recruits such as former soldiers from the job telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/0…
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    People who vilify Britain will be treated as extremists and referred to the Government’s deradicalisation Prevent programme under plans by Rishi Sunak. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
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    Migrants are to be banned from making UK asylum claims at sea after Brexit under a new law that paves the way for border force vessels to intercept them and return them immediately to France. telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/1…
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    More than a third of policing chiefs are urging @SuellaBraverman to ditch the blanket requirement for all officers to have degrees to stop forces missing out on veterans and older, experienced recruits. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/3…
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    Graduate-only entry to the police risks an influx of recruits who lack the “life experience” and “hardiness” to cope with the increasing violence that frontline officers face, a chief constable has warned. telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/1…
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    Artificial intelligence (AI) and face recognition technology is being used for the first time in job interviews in the UK to identify the best candidates. telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/2…
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    Two thirds of the Albanian Channel migrants who were electronically tagged to prevent them absconding have cut them off or tampered with them in a bid to escape, Home Office figures show. telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/1…
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    Civil servants appointed only six Home Office staff to deal with up to 15,000 Windrush compensation claims despite estimates that more than 20 times that number were needed at the outset, the official spending watchdog has revealed. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
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    key points: - Ban on care workers bringing in dependents - Minimum salary for foreign skilled workers hiked to £38.7K - Shortage occupation list scrapped - Minimum income to bring in spouse raised to £38,700 - Two year graduate visa reviewed
    A new package of measures to cut record net migration will see the number of people moving to the UK fall by 300,000, @JamesCleverly told MPs on Monday. @RobertJenrick @SuellaBraverman @miriam_cates telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…
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    A police force could become the first in Britain to charge the NHS for the time that officers spend on “unnecessary” mental health call-outs rather than solving crimes. telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/3…
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    Lucy Connolly has been “manhandled without provocation”, handcuffed and stripped of privileges by prison officers, the deputy leader of @reformparty_uk @TiceRichard has claimed @AllisonPearson
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    Priti Patel wants to close UK borders to prevent thousands of passengers from coronavirus hotspot countries coming to Britain. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/…
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    Police watchdogs have endorsed the tactic of knocking moped thieves off their motorbikes as a "legitimate use of force" for officers with specialist training. telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/1…