Home Secretary Priti Patel will BAN foreign criminals from Britain if they have been jailed for more than a year as she unveils UK’s new points-based immigration system from January 1 Patel is set to reveal details of how UK’s points-based system will operate Criminals who have prison sentences longer than a year could be … Read more
Priti Patel last night told France to start towing boatloads of illegal migrants back to its shores – as numbers crossing the Channel to England surged to near-record levels. Up to 200 migrants were intercepted by Border Force patrols off the British coast yesterday in what is feared to be a new daily record. The … Read more
Thugs who assault police or other emergency service workers should face longer in jail, Priti Patel says today. Writing exclusively for the Daily Mail, the Home Secretary reveals details of plans to double the maximum sentence for criminals convicted of attacking 999 staff. She will today launch a review that recommends increasing the maximum jail … Read more
So much for your great deportation crackdown, Priti Patel! Home Secretary’s promise thrown into doubt by new failures to secure the removal of offenders Priti Patel promised to crack down of foreign criminals dodging deportation The Mail on Sunday can reveal cases that demonstrate the urgent need for the new fast-track deportation legislation promised the … Read more
Home Secretary Priti Patel will tell chief constables to prosecute shoplifters stealing less than £200 after complaints thefts are being ignored by police A study of 3,500 retailers revealed that abuse towards workers had increased There is a feeling that complaints of minor thefts are being ignored by police Some shops have now even resorted … Read more
Next and Asos have dropped Boohoo clothes from their websites as influencers turn their backs and £1billion is wiped off the fast fashion firm’s value in two days over its Leicester lockdown factories scandal. The Health and Safety Executive is probing three Leicester factories over claims staff are being forced to work with inadequate protection … Read more
Boohoo’s shares plunged by £1.3 billion today after Priti Patel asked Britain’s FBI to investigate the fast fashion chain over claims they were using an alleged £3.50-an-hour sweatshop in Leicester to produce cheap clothing during the coronavirus pandemic. The Home Secretary has stepped in and instructed the National Crime Agency to probe the issues amid claims … Read more
The Mayor of Leicester had been warned that some manufacturing companies were breaching Covid-19 social distancing guidelines three months ago, a former minister has claimed. Sir Peter Soulsby, 71, and his Labour councillors received a letter from politicians in the Conservative Party warning them of the ‘shuttered premises’ in which textile workers were operating in … Read more
Clothes workers in Leicester are being paid as little as £3.50 an hour to produce items for some of the UK’s biggest fashion brands, an investigation has uncovered. At a factory named as Jaswal Fashions, where clothes at bound for online giant Boohoo and Nasty Gal, employees are said to work for less than half … Read more
Did embattled Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick say that the UK has ‘had enough female Prime Ministers’? Amber Rudd has said an unnamed senior Tory made the comment last year She claims it came during last years’ Conservative party leadership contest Tory MPs claim that Jenrick was the MP who made the remark, which he denies … Read more