Politics (Page 407)

S ixty fast food delivery riders have been arrested across London in a week-long Home Office crack down on alleged immigration offences. Moped riders from Deliveroo, JustEat and UberEats were arrested between April 16 and 21 when policing and Home Office authorities targeted moped driver hotspots across the capital. OffencesContinue Reading

H ealth officials have warned that some young people are at risk of potentially deadly meningitis and blood poisoning after a fall in vaccine coverage among teenagers. Uptake of the jab that protects against the bacteria which lead to meningitis fell significantly last year, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)Continue Reading

Mr Yousaf will meet the Prime Minister amid the looming court battle between Holyrood and Westminster after Scottish Secretary Alister Jack blocked the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. The First Minister has previously said challenging the UK Government’s block on the gender Bill was “our only means of defending ourContinue Reading

A n asylum seeker who crossed the Channel in a small boat declared that “no human is illegal” as Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists rallied outside the Home Office’s central London headquarters. XR climate activists carrying origami paper boats protested outside the building in Westminster to show “solidarity and compassion withContinue Reading

A review will be conducted to find out why a “very small proportion of mobile users” did not receive the test of a new national emergency alert system on Sunday. The Cabinet Office said the “vast majority of compatible phones” received the alert as part of what was said toContinue Reading

N ew powers that the Home Secretary wants added to the Illegal Migration Bill will not give ministers “carte blanche” to overrule European court orders, the Deputy Prime Minister has said. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she needs the “crucial power” of being able to stop European judges from interveningContinue Reading

A Conservative peer who is leading a Government review into how the Civil Service operates has called for a more “robust culture” in Whitehall. Lord Francis Maude said the system needs to be less “mealy-mouthed about ‘politicisation’” in the wake of Dominic Raab’s resignation and his claims that Civil ServiceContinue Reading

S cottish Tory MSPs have been accused of hypocrisy for condemning Lord Frost’s comments on “rolling back” devolution. The SNP said the Tory party “can’t change its spots” on its opposition to the creation of the Scottish Parliament. It came after former lead Brexit negotiator Lord Frost wrote in theContinue Reading

A young man has been killed in a single-vehicle road traffic collision in Co Sligo. The man aged in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene at Rathbraughan, on the outskirts of Sligo town early on Saturday morning. His remains have since been taken to the mortuary at SligoContinue Reading