Home Office in the media: Thursday 8 August

Today's Home Office media stories include coverage on the police officer who was attacked with a machete, figures on women carrying knives and Albanian gangs on Facebook.
Today's Home Office media stories include coverage on the police officer who was attacked with a machete, figures on women carrying knives and Albanian gangs on Facebook.
Today's top stories include an issue with an individual's biometric passport, and the seizure of heroin worth more than £40 million. Biometric passport error The Guardian reports that a university professor has criticised the Home Office after being stopped at airports …
Today's top media story is an update on migrant boat crossings, focusing on returns to Europe. Channel migrants Further to widespread coverage yesterday (05 August) on migrants making the journey across the Channel on small boats, the Independent reports that …
Today's Home Office media stories include rural crime figures, overseas students post Brexit and migrants crossing the Channel.
Today's Home Office media stories include anonymity for suspects of sex offences, and Clare's Law. Sex suspect anonymity There is further reporting of remarks by the Justice Secretary Robert Buckland that celebrities and politicians suspected of sex offences should not …
This page was updated on 5 November 2019. Resource and staffing requirements are continually reviewed, and we deploy resources flexibly as and when they are required. The Chancellor has announced £2.1 billion for no deal preparations. Following the extension of Article …
Today's Home Office media stories include calls to end 'indefinite detention', anti-Semitic hate crime and the first National Policing Board. Indefinite detention The Independent reports that the Government has rejected widespread calls to end the indefinite detention of immigrants in …
This week, the Five Country Ministerial meeting of Home Affairs, Interior, Security and Immigration ministers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States met in London to discuss emerging security threats. On Tuesday, they were joined …
Today's Home Office in the media stories include the Home Affairs Committee report on serious violence, coverage of the Home Secretary's comments on Facebook encryption following the Five Eyes security summit, and calls for a criminal investigation into the police …
Today's leading stories include a High Court ruling on surveillance laws and a report on online grooming. Investigatory powers legal challenge The Guardian and Mirror Online report that the civil rights group Liberty has lost its latest high court challenge …
Home Office in the media is the Home Office's blog on the latest topical home affairs issues. It features a review of leading media stories, responses to breaking news, rebuttal to inaccurate reports, and ministerial comment.