Watch community groups come together to tell the Home Office - we choose compassion not cruelty. Want to join us? Write to your MP TODAY tinyurl.com/382ujcwn #TogetherWithRefugees

Nearly 50,000 illegal migrants removed or deported since the election. On Monday, I will announce plans to scale up the removal of illegal migrants. I will do whatever it takes to secure our borders.

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. We absolutely need immigration controls. And where those controls decide to grant asylum, we should welcome and integrate, not create perpetual limbo and alienation. The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities. The Government is wrong to think that reviews of safety in the person's country every few years will mean refugees can be returned at scale. That hasn't happened in Denmark. Brutal dictators tend to hang onto power. It would just move huge amounts of resource away from making our asylum system work as it should - by cutting initial decision delays and the appeals backlog, sorting out asylum accommodation, making the UK-France deal work, removing those whose claims fail etc. The Government must think again on this. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025…

The Sentencing Council tried to give ethnic minority criminals more lenient sentences, than their white counterparts. Identity politics will destroy our country. @Conservatives will abolish the Council as part of our plans for Stronger Borders, and tackling two tier justice.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has reportedly issued a presidential pardon for the imprisoned Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. He is set to be released once Sisi’s decision is published in the Official Gazette. hrw.org/news/2025/09/22/egyp…

Counting is underway in the Queen's Park by-election #LDreporter #Brighton

Is it time for gunboats to help stop the people smugglers? Analysis from Sky's @JonCraig ⬇️ trib.al/5lcYZEC

Laila Soueif is impossibly brave. She now talks of dying without ever seeing her son again. Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s detention breaks the Vienna Convention, and our Govt must act decisively. Change travel advice for Egypt, and apply to the International Court of Justice.

Why trying to out-Farage Farage is just never going to work for Labour. The most hardline, anti-migrant set of policies from any UK Government in recent years and the Daily Mail still portrays it as a betrayal