In a significant victory for the Daily Mail s Betrayal of the Brave campaign, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced the fast-tracking of Afghan translators applications to come to the UK.
Leaked documents now show the Home Secretary pressed ministers and officials intervened to give a previously unreported £28.8million contract to a firm represented by Samir Jassal.
Mr Morgan was killed with an axe in the car park of a pub in Sydenham, south-east London, on March 10, 1987. The findings on the will be published by the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel.
Facebook could be fined if British spies are denied access to messages on the tech giant’s apps, it emerged yesterday.
Priti Patel warned that the social media firm was operating in ‘dangerous territory’ and risking public safety with its plans for stronger encryption.
With ‘end-to-end encryption’, messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram would only be visible to the sender and receiver.
Miss Patel told Times Radio yesterday: ‘We’ll bring changes, we will legislate [and] we will absolutely fine companies because this is a dangerous territory for Facebook to be operating in’
The Home Secretary is concerned the move could block hundreds of counter-terrorism investigations, and prevent police intercepting other crimes including child sexual exploitation.
Measures to bar those suspected of heading to the UK for sham marriages will be announced by Priti Patel today.
The new crackdown will see visas refused in cases where intelligence points towards bogus weddings, the Mail can disclose.
Under a new Home Office plan to be published today, immigration officers will be given fresh powers to turn away travellers at the border if they suspect their involvement in a sham marriage.
Immigration officers will be given fresh powers to turn away travellers at the border, under new powers
In the most recent data – from 2018 – registrars reported 2,868 suspected bogus unions. This was up from 561 in 2009.