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Labour has accused home secretary Suella Braverman of piling high further “delays, cost, chaos and confusion” onto an “already broken” asylum system.
Speaking in the Commons on Monday, shadow home secretary Stephen Kinnock MP said: “The Nationality and Borders Act establishes a new category of asylum seeker who the government claims are not permitted to claim asylum in Britain, and should therefore be removed.
“But because [the government] has failed to agree a returns agreement with France, and because their Rwanda policy is completely unworkable, 16,000 people in this category have been stuck in limbo waiting an additional six months for a decision at huge cost to the British taxpayer.”
“Do ministers therefore accept that their own legislation is adding further delays, cost, chaos and confusion to an already broken system?” he said.
Ms Braverman replied: “Labour are very good at complaining – [but] they have absolutely no solution at all.”
It comes after the home secretary signed £63m deal with France which will see British officers stationed in French control rooms for the first time.
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Rishi Sunak says taxes must rise to avoid market backlash
Rishi Sunak has said that the government must follow through on its promise of tax rises and spending cuts in this week’s autumn statement or risk a market backlash destabilising the UK economy.
The prime minister is facing the threat of rebellion from backbench Conservative MPs angry at Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that everyone in the UK will pay more tax as a result of the fiscal policies he is set to unveil on Thursday.
But Mr Sunak said that the chancellor has no choice but to deliver on the expectations of the international markets that he will put Britain’s finances on a sustainable path.
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Rishi Sunak calls Russia ‘rogue state’ for not attending G20 summit
Rishi Sunak said that Vladimir Putin’s no-show at the summit means he is not even attempting to explain his actions, despite being “responsible for so much bloodshed in Ukraine”.
Mr Sunak wrote in the Telegraph that “we will not let our economic future be held hostage by the actions of a rogue state – and nor will our allies”.The prime minister arrived in Bali today for the summit.
Braverman to sign deal with France today over Channel migrants
Suella Braverman, the home secretary, will sign an agreement with French interior minister Gerald Darmanin today to ramp up efforts to stop migrant crossings in small boats in the Channel.
On Friday last week, foreign secretary James Cleverly and Catherine Colonna, his French counterpart, issued a statement stressing the “urgency of tackling all forms of illegal migration”.
Under the new agreement that Ms Braverman will sign in Paris today, the amount the UK pays France to cover the cost of increased patrols at their end will increase from about £55m a year to £63m.
This year so far 40,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats according to the latest government data. Last year, the number stood at 28,526.
Sunak pledges ‘sustainable trajectory’ as Hunt warns of ‘sacrifices’ for all
Rishi Sunak has pledged to deliver on market expectations with this week’s autumn budget as his Chancellor warned everyone will need to pay “a bit more tax” to stabilise the economy.
The Prime Minister said Jeremy Hunt will unveil measures on Thursday to “put our public finances on a sustainable trajectory” after investors were spooked by his predecessor’s £45 billion tax-cutting bonanza.
The statement is expected to include painful public spending cuts and tax hikes to plug a black hole in the nation’s finances.
Mr Hunt earlier said “sacrifices” were required across the board to get the economy back on track.
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Fears that Jeremy Hunt’s tax-and-spend plan will send businesses into ‘hibernation’
Business will go into “hibernation” in a “decade of no growth” unless chancellor Jeremy Hunt matches tax rises in the upcoming mini-Budget with moves to relax rules on immigration, planning and regulations, the CBI has warned.
Failure to take action to tackle labour shortages will be “damaging in the short and long term”, the business organisation’s director general Tony Danker said.
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CBI urges Jeremy Hunt to relax immigration rules ahead of autumn statement
The head of the Confederation of British Industry, a prominent business lobby group, has urged Jeremy Hunt to make “tough political choices” to allow more overseas workers.
Appealing to the government just days ahead of the autumn statement, the CBI said that the move will help companies struggling with staff shortages and the looming recession.
Tony Danker, the director general of the CBI, said its members agreed to “tough fiscal choices” on spending and tax.CBI warned that sectors including hospitality, construction, and manufacturing are suffering from the worst staff shortages.
Matt Hancock says winning campsite leader vote ‘more than makes up for’ losing to Johnson in 2019 leadership election
Matt Hancock has said that being voted leader of the “I’m A Celebrity” campsite “more than makes up for” losing to Boris Johnson in the 2019 Tory Party leadership election.
The 44-year-old added: “Obviously, it’s a great honour and privilege to be camp leader. I want to thank everybody who voted for me.”
Last week, Mr Hancock also asked for forgiveness from his campmates and said that he was “really looking for is a bit of forgiveness” over his Covid lockdown actions.
ICYMI: Brexit has imposed ‘costs’ on UK economy, Jeremy Hunt admits
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has accepted that Brexit has imposed “costs” on the UK, but insisted he did not believe EU withdrawal would make Britain poorer in the long run.
Challenged by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Hunt did not deny that the UK economy had grown less strongly since the formal departure date almost three years ago than it would have done if Britain had remained in the European trading bloc.
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