Priti Patel

Priti Patel says asylum system is ‘broken’ as 20 Channel migrants are taken off deportation flight

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Priti Patel today branded Britain’s asylum system ‘broken’ after 20 migrants were taken off a new deportation flight to Germany. The Home Secretary sent another handful of migrants back to mainland Europe, but was hit by a flurry of 11th-hour legal challenges. An immigration enforcement charter flight yesterday flew three Iranians, two Eritreans, an Iraqi … Read more

Priti Patel says asylum system is ‘broken’ as 20 Channel migrants are taken off deportation flight

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Priti Patel today branded Britain’s asylum system ‘broken’ after 20 migrants were taken off a new deportation flight to Germany. The Home Secretary sent another handful of migrants back to mainland Europe, but was hit by a flurry of 11th-hour legal challenges. An immigration enforcement charter flight yesterday flew three Iranians, two Eritreans, an Iraqi … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches Priti Patel addressing the Conservative Party conference

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Well, I wouldn’t mess with her. Priti Patel click-clacked on to the podium and fixed her imaginary audience with a cold, hard stare.  Chin out, jawline firm, paws beneath the pulpit. Surely all these illegal Channel crossings would be solved if the Home Secretary simply set up camp down on the white cliffs.  One glare … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches Priti Patel addressing the Conservative Party conference

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Well, I wouldn’t mess with her. Priti Patel click-clacked on to the podium and fixed her imaginary audience with a cold, hard stare.  Chin out, jawline firm, paws beneath the pulpit. Surely all these illegal Channel crossings would be solved if the Home Secretary simply set up camp down on the white cliffs.  One glare … Read more

Priti Patel vows to overhaul ‘broken’ asylum system

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Priti Patel today vowed to stop people ‘taking our country for a ride’ by overhauling the ‘broken’ asylum system and cracking down on migrant crossings. The Home Secretary pledged the ‘biggest overhaul in decades’ as she warned that the current arrangements are not ‘firm or fair’. In her keynote speech to Tory conference, Ms Patel … Read more

Priti Patel vows to overhaul ‘broken’ asylum system

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Priti Patel today vowed to stop people ‘taking our country for a ride’ by overhauling the ‘broken’ asylum system and cracking down on migrant crossings. The Home Secretary pledged the ‘biggest overhaul in decades’ as she warned that the current arrangements are not ‘firm or fair’. In her keynote speech to Tory conference, Ms Patel … Read more

Only one in 70 migrants who crossed the Channel since April have been deported, figures reveal

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Only one in 70 migrants who crossed the Channel since April have been deported, Home Office figures reveal as Priti Patel vows to fix ‘broken’ asylum system The figures revealed 76 of the 5,330 migrants who made crossing were deported Home Secretary will announce new legislation at Conservative Party conference  She plans to set out … Read more

Only one in 70 migrants who crossed the Channel since April have been deported, figures reveal

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Only one in 70 migrants who crossed the Channel since April have been deported, Home Office figures reveal as Priti Patel vows to fix ‘broken’ asylum system The figures revealed 76 of the 5,330 migrants who made crossing were deported Home Secretary will announce new legislation at Conservative Party conference  She plans to set out … Read more