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Domestic Violence Definition Plans 'Contradict Government's Own Legislation'

Huffington Post UK | Posted 14.12.2011 | UK Politics

Coalition plans to widen the definition of domestic violence to include psychological abuse and victims under 18 have been criticised for contradictin...

Up To 8,000 Forced Marriages Taking Place A Year, Home Office Says

PA | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK Politics

There are at least 5,000 to 8,000 cases of forced marriage in England and the number of reported cases is rising every year, the Government has said. ...

Economists Say Migration Proposals Are 'Foolish', 'Bizarre' and 'Anti-Growth'

Huffington Post UK | Peter Guest | Posted 21.01.2012 | UK

Proposals to limit economic migrants' stay in the UK to five years unless they meet earnings thresholds risk seriously damaging the UK's universities ...

Public Unaware Of Police Presence

PA | Posted 18.11.2011 | UK

One in four people have never seen police officers on foot patrol in their local area, according to a Home Office study. The figure was revealed in...

Home Office Accused Of Being 'Highly Selective' In Drug Seizure Features

PA | Posted 15.11.2011 | UK Politics

The Home Office has been "highly selective" in its use of drugs seizure figures "in order, it seems, to show the UK Border Agency in a good light", th...

Brodie Clark To Give His Side Of The Passports Story To MPs

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 15.11.2011 | UK Politics

Brodie Clark, the UK Border Force official who resigned following revelations that passports weren't checked properly at UK ports and airports over th...

'Poppy-Burning' Muslim Protest Group To Be Banned In UK

The Huffington Post UK | Olivia Williams | Posted 10.01.2012 | UK

Protest group Muslims Against Crusades will be banned from midnight on Thursday, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, has announced. Theresa May said t...

Theresa May Faces Grilling Over Border Control Lapse

PA | Posted 08.01.2012 | UK Politics

The political storm over relaxed border controls at UK ports during the peak summer period is set to continue as Home Secretary Theresa May faces anot...

Police Could Get More Powers After Summer Disorder

PA | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK Politics

Police could be given more powers to demand face coverings are removed and to impose curfews to deal with crowds in the wake of this summer's riots un...

Report Illegal Immigrants To Authorities, Urges Cameron

Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.12.2011 | UK Politics

The prime minister has urged the public to report people suspected of being illegal immigrants as part of a wide ranging speech in London on migration...

Head Of National Crime Agency Named

Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.12.2011 | UK Politics

Theresa May has named the head of the national crime agency - Warwickshire police chief constable Keith Bristow. Bristow will head up the new body,...

Huhne Admits Briefing Against May

Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 09.12.2011 | UK Politics

Chris Huhne has admitted his rouge tweet where he accidentally wrote that he did not want his "fingerprints" on a story was related to an attempt to b...

Call To Scrap DNA Retention Measure

PA | Posted 06.12.2011 | UK Politics

A broad catch-all discretion enabling police to keep the DNA of innocent people indefinitely for reasons of national security should be scrapped, MPs ...

May Pledges Deportation Crackdown

PA | Posted 04.12.2011 | UK Politics

Immigration laws will be toughened up to prevent foreign criminals using human rights arguments to escape deportation from the UK, Home Secretary Ther...

Human Rights are Sacred, Legislations Open to Review

Davinder Kumar | Posted 03.12.2011 | UK Politics
Davinder Kumar

If Theresa May feels the current Human Rights Act is inadequate or not fulfilling its purpose, then allow her to make a case for it. I, for one, have full confidence that the values behind the legislation have enough force to hold their ground.

Theresa May In Lost Diary Blunder

Press Association | Posted 29.11.2011 | UK Politics

Scotland Yard has been called in after Home Secretary Theresa May's personal engagements diary was mislaid. Britain's biggest force is looking into...

Crime Prevention Minister Stepping Down

PA | Press Association | Posted 16.11.2011 | UK Politics

Crime Prevention Minister Baroness Browning is stepping down from the Government on health grounds, Number 10 has said. Lady Browning, who was b...

Government Gender Equality Measure Dismissed By Women's Groups

Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 14.11.2011 | UK Politics

Measures to promote equal pay for men and women in business have been announced by Home Secretary Theresa May, but almost immediately dismissed by wom...

Robert Segwaynyi Spared Deadly Deportation to Uganda for Now

Joe Mirabella | Posted 18.10.2011 | UK
Joe Mirabella

Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay.

Deadline Day For Metropolitan Police Chief Hopefuls

Posted 16.10.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Only Britons need apply as the vacancy for the top job in UK policing expires. Strathclyde Chief Constable Stephen House has e...