Diane Taylor

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Diane Taylor

The mother of a gifted young footballer who died after police chased him at high speed while he was riding his moped has welcomed the findings of an inquest jury that found there were multiple failings by officers involved in the case. Lewis Johnson, 18, a former Crystal Palace youth player, died in February 2016 when the white Vespa scooter he was riding collided with a van in Clapton, east London, after a three-minute high-speed police chase.

2 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Josh Halliday |Diane Taylor |Ben Quinn

When Nigel Farage held a victory lap of England after his mammoth local elections win on 1 May, he was characteristically bullish about Reform UK’s plan to shake up town halls. The party would send in Elon Musk-style budget-slashing units, he said, while promising to turf out asylum seekers and any civil servants working on climate change or diversity.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Diane Taylor

Two people have died attempting to cross the Channel in the early hours of Wednesday, according to the French rescue service. It follows a similar death on Monday. According to the Gris-Nez regional operational surveillance and rescue centre, 80 migrants set off from Gravelines in a dinghy monitored by a French navy vessel on Tuesday evening. The centre received reports that two people were unconscious on board and a rescue was carried out. Ten others asked to be rescued.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Diane Taylor

Hundreds of thousands of people have still not registered for eVisas, leaving them without the means to prove their immigration status just days before the final deadline. The Home Office is replacing physical identity documents for millions of migrants with online information, which can be used for traveland the right to work and rent a home. The controversial new system has been dogged by a succession of technical problems.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Diane Taylor

More than a dozen bishops and other senior Christian, Muslim and Jewish faith leaders have written to the prime minister after his “island of strangers” speech, urging him to use a more “compassionate narrative” about migrants. The letter was sent to Keir Starmer after his speech on Monday, which preceded the publication of the government’s immigration white paper that has been widely criticised by migrant rights organisations and civil society groups.