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The Home Office has rowed back on plans to hike the salary needed to bring family members to the UK to £38,700 next spring. The increase – from the current level of £18,600 – was announced earlier this month as part of a plan to lower legal migration. But the new threshold will initially be set at £29,000, with further ...

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has said there are “grounds for changing the law” on assisted dying. Sir Keir said MPs should be given a chance to vote with their conscience on the matter. A bill to legalise assisted dying in the UK was defeated in 2015, but was backed by Sir Keir and several Tory cabinet members. The issue ...

Baroness Michelle Mone has hit back at Rishi Sunak, saying she was “honest” with the government over contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE). The peer has admitted lying to the media about her links to a company that supplied millions of pounds worth of personal protective equipment to the government during the Covid pandemic. But she insisted the government knew ...

The foreign secretary has said he would like to see a “sustainable ceasefire” in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Lord Cameron also warned “too many civilians have been killed” in Gaza. More than 18,000 people have been killed, including thousands of children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. His intervention in a Sunday Times article marks a shift in tone from the UK government, ...

LONDON, Dec 15 : A teenager from Britain who resurfaced in southern France after disappearing six years ago is expected to return to northern England in the next few days, police said on Friday after the boy left a spiritualist mountain community in the Pyrenees. Alex Batty disappeared at the age of 11 during a holiday with his mother and ...

A 17-year-old British boy from Oldham who went missing in Spain in 2017 has been found in France, authorities say. Alex Batty was found in the town of Revel, east of Toulouse, early on Wednesday morning. The prosecutor’s office in Toulouse told the BBC the family had confirmed the teenager’s identity. Alex had been missing for six years after going ...

Former minister David Davis has confirmed he intervened to stop an attack on a rough sleeper near Parliament on Tuesday evening. The veteran Tory MP said he stepped in when he two men began “kicking seven bells” out of another man on the floor. He told the BBC the man was so “badly beaten up” that he let him stay ...

The United Kingdom is set to implement substantial revisions to its Student visa rules effective January 1, 2024, impacting international students and their dependents. These changes are poised to reshape the landscape for those pursuing education in the UK. The recent regulations have implications not only for Bangladeshi students currently enrolled in educational institutions in the UK but also for ...

The Metropolitan Police lacks the funding it needs to meet London’s “unique demands”, Sadiq Khan has said. The mayor has written to Home Secretary James Cleverley to call for an increase in the National and International Capital City (NICC) grant. NICC is a mechanism provided to the Met to support the additional costs of policing a capital city – including ...

Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick has said Rishi Sunak is making “a political choice” to revive Rwanda asylum scheme in a way that is unlikely to work. In his first interview since quitting his post, Mr Jenrick told the BBC the draft law was “weak” and would be “bogged down” by legal challenges. Everyone who “understands” asylum law thinks the ...