Matt Dathan

Donald Trump's government agrees to a crackdown on people smugglers that use US social media platforms to advertise small boat crossings: https://t.co/6tNQqpYUsd

EXCL: Stopping all small boat crossings is unrealistic, says Major General Duncan Capps, the man in charge of Britain's operational response in the Channel. Here's his interview with @thetimes: https://t.co/4ln6PKtvE8

NEW: The Sentencing Council has agreed to pause its 'two-tier' guidelines until the government has passed emergency legislation to overturn it. So Parliament will spend days legislating to overturn a set of guidelines that will never come into effect. Sufficient use of time!?

Also in this piece: How next week's Border Security Summit being held in London next week had to be renamed because it kept being referred to as the “BS” summit!

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EXCL: An FBI-style ‘Most Wanted’ list will be drawn up by the security services, the Home Office and the NCA to target the top 100 most dangerous people smugglers to Britain: https://t.co/roFCSwLhHb

EXCL: An FBI-style ‘Most Wanted’ list will be drawn up by the security services, the Home Office and the NCA to target the top 100 most dangerous people smugglers to Britain: https://t.co/roFCSwLhHb

RT @HarryYorke1: Great scoop from @matt_dathan This has felt like a long time coming. Noises around Michael Stewart have been growing f…

EXCL: The head of the Prevent programme is leaving following the failures exposed by the Southport attack. Michael Stewart was also held responsible for a controversial report that said claims of two tier policing were an extreme-right narrative: https://t.co/LhhJqJ4VSR

Shabana Mahmood is considering emergency legislation to overrule the Sentencing Council on these new 'two-tier' guidelines but very unlikely to be in time for Tuesday. Mahmood says: "All options are on the table and I will legislate if necessary.”

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NEW: The Sentencing Council has refused to back down in its row with the justice secretary Shabana Mahmood about new 'two-tier' sentencing guidelines It means that the guidelines, which advise judges to consider softer sentences for criminals from minority groups, will come into

It was only in 2022 that Labour forced the government to rip out solar panels in prisons across the country after exposing how they contained parts made by Uighur Muslims in forced labour camps: https://t.co/KZdWSsBm3D

Excl in @thetimes this morning: The Home Office has cancelled its contract with a large supplier of hotels for poor performance and profiteering. And it is bringing in the firm that ran the Bibby Stockholm barge: https://t.co/3UK0VA3zRL

Excl: Three in four court cases are still processed in paper form despite a £1.5 billion, nine year 'modernisation' programme that finishes this month: https://t.co/bUwN5nN0cB

Excl: Treasury admits migrants will be housed in hotels for years as it orders the Home Office to find cheaper providers. A document setting out an audit of asylum accommodation rails at "profiteering" by the private contractors: https://t.co/dmZSgOFbj2

Josh Babarinde was just four years old when he was first abused by his mother’s ex-partner. Now he's trying to change the law to better protect victims of domestic abuse. Read the Lib Dem MP's story in @thetimes here: https://t.co/FUOMY4Kqrp @JoshBabarinde