Priti Patel

Former home secretary Priti Patel. Picture: Andrew Boyers/PA Wire

Priti Patel calls for review of Rishi Sunak's security

A European Union flag in front of Big Ben, as Remain supporters demonstrate in Parliament Square, London, to show their support for the EU in the wake of Brexit. PIC: PA

Brexit delivered a clear message to EU nationals like me - Donatella Montrone

Fans during the Leeds Festival 2022 at Bramham Park in Leeds. Picture: Danny Lawson

Home Office blocking festival drug testing risks young lives: Jayne Dowle

Partygate probe: Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg named in privileges committee special report

Privileges committee publishes damning report on Conservative MPs

Former prime minister Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson resignation honours: Ben Houchen and Priti Patel receive gongs

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab faces bullying allegations. PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Are Dominic Raab complaints really warranted? - Bill Carmichael

Home Secretary Suella Braverman making a statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London. Ms Braverman has said she is "committed" to making the plan to send migrants to Rwanda work after the High Court ruled that the policy is lawful. Several challenges were brought against the proposals announced by then-home secretary Priti Patel in April, which she described as a "world-first agreement" with the east African nation in a bid to deter migrants from crossing the Channel. Picture date: Monday December 19, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Rwanda. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/PA Wire

High Court rules Rwanda policy as lawful

Stand Up To Racism campaigners hold banners outside the High Court in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Government plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful, rules High Court

An inflatable craft carrying migrants crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel. PIC: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

We need to adopt the Australian approach to Channel crossings - Bill Carmichael

A group of people thought to be migrants being brought in to Dover, Kent. Photo credit: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Asylum seeker in Yorkshire hotel for a year says he feels 'useless'

There was heated local opposition, including from the Conservative controlled Hambleton District Council

Linton on Ouse: Plans "would have cost taxpayer more than £30m"

Liz Truss has held her first meeting with her newly-appointed Cabinet - where the energy crisis will have undoubtedly been a key topic of conversation. Credit: Getty Images

The Liz Truss Cabinet: who has been given what by the new PM?

The former RAF base was withdrawn by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace earlier this month after months of legal wranglings over the proposed opening of a processing centre which could have housed up to 1,500 lone men in North Yorkshire.

Linton-on-Ouse: Asylum charities demand Government drop Greek-style centres

Priti Patel cancelled her scheduled appearance before the Home Affairs Select Committee yesterday. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA

Priti Patel ducking questions undermines faith in Government - YP says

Home Secretary Priti Patel has been criticised for cancelling the appearance.

Priti Patel's cancellation of appearance with MPs branded 'wholly unacceptable'

File photo dated 3/2/2017 of the New Scotland Yard sign outside the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London

London’s Metropolitan Police placed under special measures amid failures

Hambleton District Council served the Home Office with a letter in May informing the department it intends to mount a challenge to stop the centre, proposed for Linton on Ouse, from opening.

Linton on Ouse asylum centre: Council in limbo after Home Office delays

Priti Patel. Pic: PA.

Leaving the EU did not mean leaving our compassion for refugees - YP Letters

Emma Collins, 51, from Tadcaster, wants to open her home up to Tetiana Fishchuk (left) and her son Zakhar (right) who are currently living in temporary accommodation having lost their home during the conflict.

Family shares frustration as visa delays lead to refugees being stuck in Ukraine

A Boeing 767 aircraft at MoD Boscombe Down, near Salisbury, which is believed to be the plane that had been due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda.

Fallout to Government's Rwanda flight plan continues - The Yorkshire Post says

A planned deportation flight to Rwanda was cancelled following successful legal challenges.

British judges also blocked Rwanda flight deportations at 11th hour
British as well as European judges blocked planned deportations of asylum seekers to Rwanda on the first planned flight to the country, it has emerged.

The Government is planning to set up an asylum seeker processing centre for up to 1,500 people at the former RAF base in Linton-on-Ouse

Linton on Ouse: Government misses deadline to justify asylum seeker centre plans

Campaigners outside Linton-on-Ouse Village Hall

Meet the villagers fighting plans for asylum centre in Linton-on-Ouse

The Home Office have previously indicated to villagers that there will be no compensation scheme offered for residents whose houses may drop in value owing to the new asylum centre.

RAF veteran shares despair after losing £20,000 on his Linton on Ouse house sale

Jacob Rees-Mogg. Pic: Getty.

Ruffling feathers is all part of being a strong leader - Sarah Todd

Protestors in Linton-on-Ouse. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire.

Linton-on-Ouse villagers have been ignored over asylum centre plan - The YP says

Priti Patel. Picture: PA.

The Public Order Bill puts the law-abiding majority first - Priti Patel

Priti Patel. Picture: PA.

Priti Patel's Public Order Bill threatens right to peaceful protest - Yvette Coo...

Protestors in Linton-on-Ouse. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA.

Linton-on-Ouse centre the latest smokescreen to save PM - Yorkshire Post Letters

More than 100 protestors chanted “Wrong Plan, Wrong Place,” ahead of a parish council meeting in Linton-on-Ouse. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Priti Patel, we insist you visit Linton-on-Ouse - The Yorkshire Post says

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan walks through cannabis plants which are being legally cultivated at a licensed factory in Los Angeles. Picture: Stefan Rousseau.

Why cannabis possession laws should be repealed 100 years on - GP Taylor

Home Secretary Priti Patel. Photo: Yui Mok/PA

Leaving EU did not mean leaving behind compassion - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: MK O’Sullivan, Victoria Street, Allerton Bywater, Castleford.

Imran Ahmad Khan at Southwark Crown Court earlier this month

Rotherham survivor ‘disgusted’ MP Khan reviewed Home Office grooming paper

Men living in the centre will be free to come and go as they please according to the Home Office, although they will be expected to stay there overnight.

1500 single men set to be housed in refugee centre in Linton on Ouse

Home Secretary Priti Patel outside the Ukrainian embassy in London. Photo: Yui Mok/PA

Priti Patel's Home Office incompetence is failing Ukrainians - Yvette Cooper

The Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishops' intervention over Rwanda asylum plan show that policy needs further...

Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell has criticised Government plans to send asylum seekers to live in Rwanda.

Archbishop of York condemns 'depressing and distressing' Rwanda plan on refugees

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby carries a wooden cross during the Walk of Witness at St Mary's Church, Sellindge, Kent, as he carries out his Holy Week engagements.

Rwanda asylum plan ‘cannot stand up to judgment of God’, says Archbishop

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Ken

Plan to send refugees to Rwanda would be breach of human rights, UN expert says

Parliamentary portrait of Kevin Hollinrake MP

Community must be at the heart of Linton on Ouse asylum centre, MP says

The village of Linton-on-Ouse, near York

Yorkshire village set to be home to reception centre for asylum seekers

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Minister for Brexit Opportunities, continues to divide political and public opinion.

Jacob Rees-Mogg out of order over ‘partygate’ claim – Yorkshire Post Letters

Refugees who fled the war from Ukraine arrive at the Przemysl train station, southeastern Poland, on Saturday, March 12, 2022. Russian troops are pressing their offensive across Ukraine, pounding populated areas with artillery and airstrikes and deploying siege tactics honed in Syria and Chechnya where opposing cities were reduced to rubble. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris).

Ukrainian refugees deserve better than this – Yorkshire Post Letters

Women and children wait to board a bus heading for Przemysl, after fleeing from Ukraine, at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. U.N. officials said that the Russian onslaught has forced 2 million people to flee Ukraine. It has trapped others inside besieged cities that are running low on food, water and medicine amid the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu).

Poland shames Priti Patel over refugees – Yorkshire Post Letters

Protestors campaigning against the Bill last month in Halifax.
Photo: Veeca Smith Uka

Ukraine: Yorkshire charities join together to condemn Government's refugee Bill

An employee from the Emergency Situations Department holds the baby of a refugee fleeing the conflict from neighbouring Ukraine at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret, Romania, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

British families to be asked to open their homes to Ukrainian refugees

Home Secretary Priti Patel meeting volunteers during her visit to the Ukrainian Social Club in Holland Park last weekend (PA)

Government announces online visa application for Ukrainian refugees

Home Secretary Priti Patel meeting volunteers during her visit to the Ukrainian Social Club in Holland Park, London.

Ukraine refugees: Why Britain must act – The Yorkshire Post says

Handout photo issued by UK Parliament of Home Secretary Priti Patel making a statement on Ukraine.

More Ukrainian refugees to be able to settle in the UK Priti Patel announces

File photo dated 04/01/2022 of Home Secretary Priti Patel

More Ukrainian refugees to be able to settle in the UK Priti Patel announces

William Hague has suggested that the UK follows the EU in offering sanctuary to all Ukrainian refugees for up to three years.

Hague joins calls for UK to welcome Ukrainian refugees after Tory MPs speak out

File photo dated 28/01/21 of Home Secretary Priti Patel

Further one hundred thousand Ukrainian refugees to seek sanctuary in UK

Yvette Cooper appeared on the BBC One’s Sunday Morning programme with Sophie Raworth

Policing facing 'perfect storm' and requires urgent reform, warns Yvette Cooper

Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a statement to MPs in the House of Commons on the Sue Gray report.

Boris Johnson: ‘Where circumstances demand honour, he dissembles’ – Andrew Vine

Should the police be doing more to support burglary victims?

Betrayal of burglary victims is national scandal – The Yorkshire Post says

Is Home Secretary Priti Patel a contender to succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister?

Why Priti Patel should succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister – Jason Reed

New claims have been made by Dominic Cummings.

Dominic Cummings claims PM 'waved aside' concerns over Downing Street party

A lady carries a small child as a group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dungeness, Kent, after being rescued by the RNLI following a small boat incident in the Channel at the weekend.

Escort boats carrying migrants back to France, Yorkshire MP demands

Pubs could have their opening hours extended as part of celebrations around the Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend

Pubs could have opening hours extended for Platinum Jubilee bank holiday weekend

Home Secretary Priti Patel has agreed to meet Tim Farron MP to discuss migration policy and its impact on the hospitality industry,

Why hospitality and tourism sectors need migrants – Tim Farron