Summary: Prime Minister addresses health risks and well-being of migrants housed on the Bibby Stockholm barge during a hospital visit in Hertfordshire. Concerns raised about the fairness of taxpayers funding hotel housing for illegal migrants, prompting the barge initiative as an alternative solution. Efforts to combat illegal immigration highlighted, with the Prime Minister emphasizing the implementation of new laws and a decrease in arrivals. Strong condemnation of recent youth criminal activities and theft, with a call for societal unity against such behavior. ...

UK Imposes Visa Requirements on Five Nations Citing 'Abuse' of the System Summary: The UK introduces new visa requirements for Dominica, Honduras, Namibia, Timor-Leste, and Vanuatu. Home Secretary cites concerns over granting citizenship to risky individuals and increasing illegal work attempts as the reasons for the new visa rules. Namibia and Honduras are leading among non-visitor nationals in terms of asylum claims, straining front-line resources. Confirmed bookings from the five countries will be visa-exempt for a month before the new regulations take effect. The decision is solely focused on border security and migration management, ...

The British public have ‘changed their minds’ on migration since Brexit I'm saying Brexit and the 2019 elections were predicated on people's views on migration generally, but particularly legal migration. But we have actually got data that says that, you know, attitudes are changing significantly. Let's take the Ruranda aspect of this, for example, mentioned in your thoughts on that as a policy, because it seems to have two question marks one is practicality is ever actually going to move many people to Rwanda? And secondly, is it going to be palatable to law if we remain in the European Convention on Human Rights? Both of those two questions, I think will come up in the House of Lords. Are they right to push back on Rwanda, do you think? Well, I think it's right for them to challenge the concepts behind the bill, whether they are right to actually challenge the policy...

Migrant crossings: 'Can you stop the small boats?' Are you going to be able to stop the small boats? Well, that's our objective. We couldn't have been clearer in putting it as one of the five central promises of this government to stop the boats, secure our borders and bring fairness back to our asylum system. We're going to do everything in our power to achieve that, and ultimately, it will be for the public to decide at the next general election whether we've succeeded or not. But be in no doubt that the Prime Minister of the Home Section and I will do everything we can to achieve that goal. I'm just interested in listening to some of the language you're using there. It's your objective. You're going to do everything you can to achieve it, not saying, yeah, we are going to stop the small boats. We are going to stop the small boats, and we wi...