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Yvette Cooper urged to lift ’cruel’ pause on Syrian asylum decisions
Asylum seekers say they are in limbo and charities have expressed ‘deep concern’ as claims paused after Assad regime’s fall
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Labour ’planning Italy-style migrant deals’ to tackle small boat Channel crossings
Labour are preparing a series of deals with countries like Kurdistan and Vietnam to deter migrants from crossing into Britain illegally, reports claim.
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UK unlikely to get refund for millions wasted on the scrapped Tory Rwanda plan
Yvette Cooper has said an audit will be carried out into the costs of the Rwanda project - but insiders believe there is no way of clawing back millions handed over to Rwanda
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Illegal migrants will be allowed to claim asylum in Britain, Labour says amid fresh border row
With a current grant rate of 65 per cent, letting small boat migrants claim asylum could see tens of thousands given leave to remain in the UK
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Police caught 14 young people carrying a knife every day last year
Police data released through freedom of information requests by Labour shows 5,239 under-18s were caught carrying blades last year in England and Wales
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Question Time falls silent as man shares story about pal stabbed to death
Audience member Steven told the panel about his friend Tom Ellis, 25, who was knifed to death outside the Ropewalk shopping centre in Nuneaton, Warwickshire
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Battle of the baby pics - quiz yourself on Labour politicians' childhood snaps
With days to go before the UK general election, how much do you know about our future frontbenchers? Test your knowledge with our shadow cabinet baby photo quiz
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Thousands of violent crime suspects at large despite evidence to arrest them
Half of the nation’s police forces have released figures to the Mirror, showing they failed to arrest a total of 5,306 suspects for recent and historical crimes - some going back as far as 20 years
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Labour manifesto launch date and all we know about Keir Starmer's blueprint
The Labour Party is just hours away from launching its general election 2024 manifesto, set to be unveiled by leader Keir Starmer in front of his shadow cabinet
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Dad backs Labour's police plans after teen's motorbike stolen and smashed up
The dad of a teenager whose motorbike was stolen and dumped said he 'one million percent' backed Labour leader Keir Starmer's plans to crack down on antisocial behaviour
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Labour manifesto to include crackdown on violence against shop workers
The Shadow Home Secretary said Labour would take action to end the tide of aggression on frontline staff - and pledged to end the police practice of ignoring shoplifting reports for thefts of under £200
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Grieving parents to be given right to access child's social media, Labour says
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said Labour will act fast to change the law so coroners have greater powers to access social media profiles of deceased children
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Keir Starmer makes UK's nuclear deterrent decision in defence 'triple lock' vow
As Britain prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, the Labour leader Keir Starmer will commit to a nuclear deterrent "'triple lock'
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Yvette Cooper to launch new Border squad within first 100 days of office
YVETTE Cooper today vows to launch a Border Security Command squad within the first 100 days of a Labour government, as she tells people smuggling gan
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Tories under fire as Rwanda refuses to say how many people can be deported there
Labour has hit out after Rwandan government spokeswoman Yolande Makolo refused tell the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg say how much accommodation there is for asylum seekers
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Labour vow to fix 'gaping loopholes' on zombie knives after Daniel Anjorin death
The Government has long promised to ban zombie knives and machetes in its Criminal Justice Bill, which is currently going through Parliament - but campaigners say the legislation is full of holes
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Tories defend giving man £3,000 to fly to Rwanda amid 'waste of money' criticism
Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch defended handing £3,000 to a failed asylum seeker after he agreed to move to Rwanda - with critics branding the move a costly gimmick
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Shoplifting rises nearly 40% in a year as organised criminals let off the hook
Latest data reveals there were over 430,000 cases in England and Wales last year - up from 315,000 a year earlier as Tories were accused of letting criminals get away with it
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Co-op locks up meat as Britain's shops hit by thieves every 78 seconds
Home Office figures expose the scale of the shoplifting epidemic sweeping the country as one Co-op near Didsbury in Manchester puts cuts of meat in locked security boxes
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Labour unveils plans to protect women and girls as 'too many being let down'
The Shadow Home Secretary said governments have treated violence against women and girls as an inevitability, rather than 'the emergency that it is'
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'Britain is not safe for women and hasn't been for decades - it's a disgrace'
Women are ­frightened of walking home after dark, wary of travelling alone on public transport and fearful in their own homes - and lack confidence in the police to believe them if they report a rapist
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Tory immigration shambles saw 275 visas given to fake care home company
Ministers have slipped out two damning reports exposing a series of extraordinary blunders as the Government was accused of a 'totally inadequate' handling of immigration
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Top immigration inspector sacked for warning private jet flights weren't checked
David Neal was sacked after claiming that hundreds of private jet passengers were allowed into the UK without going through proper checks, which he branded a "scandal"
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Rishi Sunak's premiership now accounts for a third of small boat arrivals
New analysis found the total number of arrivals since Sunak took office had risen to 38,668 - over a third of the 115,927 who have crossed the Channel since the crisis began
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British Jews suffer 'worst antisemitism' in 40 years amid hundreds of assaults
The Community Security Trust's chief executive Mark Gardner described the "explosion in hatred" against the Jewish community as "an absolute disgrace"