Over safety concerns. Ministers want to move hundreds more onto the Bibby Stockholm, some, though, have refused, launching legal challenges. This comes as the home office announced a task force to crack down on Rogue Lawyers who may be helping migrants to remain in the uk, under false claims. Ellie price reports. The first Asylum Seekers move into their new temporary home off the coast of dorset. 15 arrived yesterday on day one, but not everyone who was supposed to come here did. Weve had a small group of about 20, i believe, whove refused to come on board. Accommodation is offered on a no choice basis and i cant go into the details of the specific Legal Proceedings for each individual, but we are continuing to bring people on board later this week and then over the coming weeks as well. Today will be the first full day the new residents of the barge have to get used to their new surroundings. Were told therell be hourly buses to take them to nearby areas. But how local people feel abo
hello, welcome to the programme. a0 migrants who crossed the english channel were brought ashore by the dover lifeboat this morning. so far, just short of 3000 people have crossed in the first two months of this year. that s twice as many as the equivalent period last year. the prime minister says stopping these boats is one of his top five priorities. tomorrow, we ll see how he proposes to do it. his new policy, that s been heavily trailed, suggests that going forward migrants who cross this way will be removed and banned from future re entry and automatically their application for british citizenship will be rejected. we will talk about what is proposed in a second, but let s first hear from someone farzad. he arrived by small boat in 2019, fleeing persecution in iran. he was granted asylum a year ago. he s been speaking to bbc radio 4. now, farzad, if you were in france, where presumably you were safe, and you heard that it was the law in the uk that if you arrived on a bo
Its monday the 22nd april, our main story. The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has told the bbc that the investigation into his death should be reopened, after the metropolitan Police Issued another apology for the way theyve handled the case. Stephen was 18 when he was stabbed to death in a racist attack in south london 31 years ago today. The metropolitan Police Commissioner has apologised to Doreen Lawrence after questions were raised about another suspect in a bbc investigation. Daniel de simone reports. The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence took place 31 years ago today at a south london bus stop. Two of the original five prime suspects were convicted almost 20 years after the murder. But the met s disastrous handling of the case means no one else has been brought to justice. Last year, the bbc publicly identified a sixth suspect matthew white, who died in 2021 and revealed multiple failures by the met to properly investigate him. Now, stephens mother, baroness Doreen
The government says it is determined that its Flagship Bill shouldnt face any further delays and that when it returns to parliament today, mps and peers will have to keep sitting and voting until its passed. 0ur Reporter simonjones has more. In the worlds busiest shipping lane, another group of migrants reaches uk waters. They are picked up by the Border Force and taken to dover. The governments big plan to stop the boats is and remains sending some Asylum Seekers Thousands of miles away to rwanda to act as a deterrent. Its faced repeated opposition in the house of lords, but the Prime Minister says enough is enough. At the end of the day, weve got to get this bill passed and ive said now very clearly were going to get this done on monday. We dont want any more prevarication or delay. Enough from the labour party, were going to get this bill passed and then we will work to get flights off so we can build that deterrent, because that is the only way to resolve this issue. 6,265 migrants
accommodation policy, for asylum seekers so they aren t given any sort of say in where they are housed. that has conflicted with the home office s legal duty to make sure asylum seekers are not destitute so what we are seeing is that sort of tension worked out in practice. it s not clear what will happen to those asylum seekers who refuse to come and it s not clear whether they will be forced to or whether they will be forced to or whether they will be forced to or whether they will be given alternative accommodation. thank you for brin . in: alternative accommodation. thank you for bringing us alternative accommodation. thank you for bringing us up-to-date alternative accommodation. thank you for bringing us up-to-date on - alternative accommodation. thank you for bringing us up-to-date on the - for bringing us up to date on the situation in portland. the home office has announced a task force to identify potential rogue lawyers who might be encouraging false claims by migrants to