Five people were detained after a migrant dinghy reached Folkestone without being intercepted at sea, the first officially recorded unescorted landing for more than a year.
Glasgow’s council leader has backed a temporary pause on further asylum placements as the city houses 3,938 Home Office-supported asylum seekers, far more than any other UK local authority.
Piddington has voted 285-26 to symbolically leave the UK in protest at plans for an asylum accommodation centre of up to 1,256 people near the village of roughly 350.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says the UK-France ‘one in, one out’ returns scheme costs around £56,000 for each person sent back to France.
Female asylum seekers have alleged rape, sexual assault and exploitation by men they encountered through Britain’s asylum system, raising safeguarding questions.
Official Home Office figures show that a charter removal flight to France on 7 January 2026 carried just one person.
