The UK Home Office announced on 4 August 2026 that its new border security partnership with France is now under way, stressing that for the first time a significant portion of the funding uplift will depend on results in stopping small boat crossings of the English Channel. In a post on X, the department outlined the core elements of the agreement: a roughly 40% increase in law enforcement, intelligence and military officers on French beaches; a new 50-strong unit of police s

Justice Secretary Alex Norris has apologised to the family of PC Andrew Harper after the government confirmed that two of the men involved in the police officer’s 2019 killing remain eligible for early release under a revised scheme to ease prison overcrowding. PC Andrew Harper, 28, died in August 2019 after being dragged more than a mile along country roads in Berkshire. He had responded to reports of a stolen quad bike near Sulhamstead when his ankles became caught in a str

A childhood rape survivor has accused Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Defence Secretary Wes Streeting of “laughing at victims” after the pair were caught on a hot mic joking about the government’s early prisoner release scheme. Jade Belgrove, a 30-year-old mother of five, said she felt “physically sick” watching the footage. She described the remarks as a “disgusting” cheap laugh that dismisses the trauma faced by survivors Mother-of-five Jade Belgrove, 30, accused newly a