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Policy would apply to those seeking asylum as well as anyone who had been charged with or convicted of immigration offencesAll foreign nationals in the UK who receive a criminal conviction would be deported under a new Conservative party policy. The Tory plan would introduce an amendment to the government’s borders bill that would remove the current threshold, in which foreign criminals are only removed after being handed a prison sentence of one year.The party hopes this amendment, which would need support from Labour MPs, would also make it easier for the government to deport foreign offenders by ending exceptions

‘Multiple explosions’ onboard MV Stena Immaculate after tank rupture, with jet fuel reportedly releasedOne person is missing after a collision between an oil tanker and a cargo ship in the North Sea, off the coast of East Yorkshire on Monday morning.It was initially reported that more than 30 casualties had been brought ashore after the MV Stena Immaculate and the Solong hit each other. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/10/uk-coastguard-scrambled-after-reports-of-collision-between-tanker-and-cargo-vessel Author : Hannah Al-Othman, Karen McVeigh and Jamie Grierson Publish date : 2025-03-10 20:44:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Former Australian of the Year says prognosis is ‘poor’ after surgery. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHousehold budgets would be bolstered and cost-of-living pressures would ease under proposed changes to the nation’s competition policy, the federal government says, Australian Associated Press reports.The assistant treasurer, Andrew Leigh, will today reveal the findings of a government taskforce in a speech to the Economic Society of Australia in Perth later this morning. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/mar/11/australia-news-live-richard-scolyer-tropical-cyclone-alfred-floods-brisbane-lismore-tariffs-steel-aluminium-terror-caravan-election-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-ntwnfb Author : Martin Farrer Publish date : 2025-03-10 19:27:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

Contest in Runcorn and Helsby will be a challenge for LabourAround 80 Labour MPs could refuse to back government plans to cut billions from the welfare budget, Amy Gibbons and Tony Diver claim in a story for the Daily Telegraph. They report:The Telegraph understands that around 80 Labour MPs – roughly a fifth of the parliamentary party – “won’t tolerate” billions of pounds of welfare cuts set to be announced by the Chancellor later this month.The anger is said to have spread beyond the “usual suspects”, with MPs who would not typically criticise Sir Keir threatening to “give the government