The UK and New Zealand agree to extend Youth Mobility and Working Holiday schemes. The age limit for applicants will go up from 30 to 35. The maximum length of time people can stay in the host country will be increased from two to three years. It follows a similar deal to allow young people … Read more
Plans for future flights to Rwanda have begun, Priti Patel has told MPs. The first flight was cancelled minutes before take-off; after a legal challenge. Yvette Cooper said the government knew there were “torture and trafficking victims”; among those the government planned to put on the plane. Priti Patel told MPs that the government is … Read more
In the interests of journalistic freedom, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged a UK minister not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on Friday. RSF and other media rights groups released an open letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel, whose formal approval is needed for Assange’s extradition, urging her to “reject the … Read more
Theresa May enters the list of critics of Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan Home Secretary Priti Patel confronted a blast of criticism in the Commons on the designs to send some asylum searchers 4,000 miles to East Africa. Moderate previous state leader Theresa May has scrutinized the “legitimateness, common sense and adequacy” of the Government’s arrangement … Read more
Priti Patel defends Rwanda scheme; challenges critics to come up with a better plan Priti Patel says it is “amazing that those organizations that scrutinize the plans neglect to offer their own answers” to handle little boat intersections in the Channel. Home Secretary Priti Patel has guarded the public authority’s arrangement to send travelers to … Read more
After her officials expressed concerns about value for money, Priti Patel had to personally approve a plan to relocate some asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda. The home secretary gave an uncommon “ministerial direction” to push the plans through, implying that she is personally responsible for them. The Home Office has only … Read more
Home secretary Priti Patel calls the Rwanda deal, a motivation for other countries. The Home Secretary trusts her “top notch” plan to send travelers to Rwanda will go about as a “outline” for different nations to follow, possibly making ready for additional arrangements. Priti Patel marked her “reality first” concurrence with the East African country … Read more
LONDON – A 25-year-old man has been charged with murder, after British MP David Amess was stabbed to death last week, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and police said on Thursday. Ali Harbi Ali, who was arrested at the scene of the killing in Leigh-on-Sea, east of London, last Friday, also faces a separate charge of … Read more
