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POLITICS
Cleverly returns to shadow Rayner
By Dan Peters | 22 July 2025
Former foreign and home secretary Sir James Cleverly has returned to the Conservative front bench as shadow local government secretary.
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EXCLUSIVE: Councils given 100,000 asylum housing target
By EXCLUSIVE by Mark Conrad | 21 May 2024
Councils have been told to identify an extra 100,000 bedspaces for asylum seekers this year amid ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Home Office accused of misleading council over asylum plans
By Mark Conrad | 24 October 2023
The Home Office faces accusations in the High Court it misled a council over controversial plans ...
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Ending asylum hotel use would back UK 'into a corner'
By Martin Ford | 25 July 2023
The UK should not back itself ‘into a corner’ and exclude hotels as part of the solution to soari...
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Ministers pile pressure on councils amid asylum crisis
By Dan Peters | 05 June 2023
Ministers are piling pressure on concerned councils as the Government pushes ahead with plans to ...
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Questions raised over asylum hotels pledge
By Dan Peters and Mark Conrad | 23 May 2023
Senior council figures have questioned whether Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge to end the use...
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EXCLUSIVE: Jenrick tells asylum contractors to improve
By Dan Peters | 12 December 2022
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has told Home Office contractors that find accommodation for ...
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Luton latest to head to courts over asylum
By Dan Peters | 28 November 2022
Luton BC has joined the councils taking legal action as the Home Office continues to place asylum...
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EXCLUSIVE: Jenrick vows to improve relationship with sector on asylum
By Dan Peters | 22 November 2022
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has told the sector the Home Office is ‘very keen to improve ...
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Gove scraps urban centre recovery taskforce
By Dan Peters | 09 December 2021
Communities secretary Michael Gove has disbanded a 10-strong expert advisory group of local gover...
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Government U-turn on Westferry planning permission
19 November 2021
The Government has overturned the controversial planning decision that landed former communities ...
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