David Barrett
Home Affairs Editor at Daily Mail
Home Affairs Editor, Daily Mail https://t.co/IyKGt1X8Fi Views are my own.
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1 day ago |
dailymail.co.uk | David Barrett |Rory Tingle
Labour has unveiled plans to build three new jails for another 1,400 prisoners amid warnings men's jails could be completely full within five months. The Justice Secretary said prisons are currently 99 per cent full and Britain risks a 'total breakdown of the justice system' if the issue is not addressed.
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3 days ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Martin Beckford |David Barrett
Sir Keir Starmer was accused of ‘taking the public for fools’ as he proposed an immigration crackdown – after years of backing open borders. The Prime Minister insisted in a major speech yesterday that he had long believed in wanting to limit the number of new arrivals to Britain and booting out foreign criminals. He warned the country risks becoming an ‘island of strangers’ and that high migration numbers had caused ‘incalculable damage’ to public services, housing and the economy.
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3 days ago |
dailymail.co.uk | David Barrett
Crucial details are absent from Labour’s new plan to drive down immigration and tighten up the asylum system. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer insisted yesterday that the long-awaited White Paper ‘signals a new era’. But proposals on the knottiest aspects of the immigration system – including tackling abuse of asylum and human rights laws – contained only vague pledges.
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1 week ago |
dailymail.co.uk | David Barrett |James Tozer |Richard Marsden
Labour's ‘tough’ sanctions against criminals who refuse to attend their sentencing in court have faced ridicule after it emerged the new punishments will be imposed for mere weeks. The Government unveiled new legislation granting judges the power to impose solitary confinement on offenders who fail to attend. But the measures will impose the penalty for a maximum of three weeks.
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1 month ago |
dailymail.co.uk | David Barrett |David Wilcock
Labour accused of grooming gang probe U-turn as minister Jess Phillips is accused of 'watering down' plan to investigate sex abuse of young girlsBy DAVID BARRETT, HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL and DAVID WILCOCK, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE Published: 04:27 EDT, 9 April 2025 | Updated: 04:27 EDT, 9 April 2025 Labour has been accused of a major U-turn over its pledge to set up five local inquiries into sex grooming gangs.
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Assisted dying laws to save the NHS up to £60million a year, with an estimated 12 people a day ultimately taking their own lives under the new measures, official documents show https://t.co/jbgIvuyHHd via @MailOnline
Illegal migrants could remain indefinitely under new sentencing plan, @RobertJenrick warns https://t.co/6rEyaR6wTt via @MailOnline
More than 150,000 migrants have reached Britain since the start of the Channel small boat crisis after a further 407 arrivals on Boxing Day, latest data from the Home Office shows. That’s 35,898 arrivals since the start of this year, including 22,324 since the general election https://t.co/hawU9M5I7Z