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Sir Keir Starmer and his home secretary are facing an angry backlash over their plans to toughen up Britain's asylum system, with Labour MPs describing the new rules as repugnant and performatively cruel. Shabana Mahmood unveiled a raft of hardline measures on Monday aimed at discouraging asylum seekers and making it easier to remove those who have no right to remain in the country.
"It's not been our finest 24 hours in government," one senior figure in government acknowledged to me, after mudslinging one way and another, some in public, plenty more in private. I have been making loads of phone calls to patch together the anatomy of another bumpy few days for Downing Street: what those close to the Prime Minister hoped to achieve, what ended up happening and where all this leaves them.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.
The thinktank argues that scrapping youth minimum wage tiers could risk "pricing out" young people from entry-level roles at a time when employers are already scaling back hiring due to rising labour costs.
If we are to succeed in our mission to transform Britain and fight back against Reform, we must be bold and embrace new ideas that put more money back into the pockets of working people. One place we can start is by looking at ways we can abolish the outdated, deeply regressive, and increasingly indefensible council tax system. Created in the early 1990s and still based on property valuations from 1991, it bears little resemblance to the realities of today's housing market.
The alleged attacker was wound up and sent into battle by the dangerous rhetoric of Labour and the Greens, Finch told the Daily Mail. He said the attack didn't cause any lasting injury. Farage said he was deeply upset about the incident and the words used against him echo the prime minister's disgraceful attack on Reform during Labour conference week and wholly irresponsible comments from the leader of the Green party.