Archive: Theresa May

Home Office clings to the raft as international drug consensus crumbles

As the US finally starts to accept defeat in the war on drugs, the Home Office hides in the shadows

NARPO "surprised" by Theresa May's choice of candidate for HMCIC

The National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) has been watching with interest the recent developments in policing and was surprised not only at the Home Secretary’s choice of candidate for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary (HMCIC) but also at the comment that he was head and shoulders above any other candidate.
Unite: G4S civilian investigators should send shock waves across the country

Unite the union, which represents police staff has demanded that home secretary, Theresa May steps in to halt police privatisation as the disgraced security company G4S advertises for civilian investigators to work for Warwickshire police.
BHA: Scrapping the Human Rights Act would be 'an international embarrassment' for the UK

Scrapping the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) would be an international embarrassment for the UK, the British Humanist Association (BHA) has said as it urged parliamentarians from across the political spectrum to defend the law.

Without due process: How Britain deported 50,000 students

Tens of thousands of students are being removed from Britain for supposedly fraudulent test results - but why won;t the Home Office show them the evidence against them?
Without due process: How Britain deported 50,000 students - part two

Tens of thousands of students are being removed from Britain for supposedly fraudulent test results - but why won;t the Home Office show them the evidence against them?

May's 'extremism Asbos' could lock up Muslims for thought-crime

We need an inclusive policy to defeat Isis, not a western government outlawing ideas it barely understands
Norman Baker: 'Genie is out the bottle' on drug reform

Westminster has finally reached a tipping point in the drug debate and radical change is now becoming possible, Home Office minister says

Living in the shadows: When Brits are made illegal

Brits who have been in the country their entire lives are suddenly finding themselves illegal after the Home Office denied their status
Bricking news: Boris fails to steal the show

Boris Johnson's buffoonery finally met its match at the Conservative party conference this year. It turns out waving a brick around and cracking jokes is no match for a hardline approach against extremism.

Could Theresa May's 'extremism Asbo' ban the Socialist Workers Party?

Severe new legal sanctions could include Communists, anti-abortion groups and Christian preachers
Britain secretly decriminalised cannabis – and it's a disaster

How a bit of under-the-table liberalism sucked even more young black and Asian kids into the criminal justice system

Rotherham child sexual exploitation: 'Culture of disbelief' warning as scapegoating continues

Mandatory reporting of all child sexual exploitation is needed to end the "culture of disbelief" revealed in Rotherham, Keir Starmer has insisted.
Part two: The Home Office's campaign of lies and intimidation against a mother

Detained, bullied, harassed and lied about: How the Home Office treated one visitor to Heathrow

The Home Office's campaign of lies and intimidation against a mother

Detained, bullied, harassed and lied about: How the Home Office treated one visitor to Heathrow
Comment: The loophole which allows police to treat 17-year-olds as adults

How many more have to die before Theresa May turns her condolences into action?

The price on love: Families' hopes dashed as court sides with May

Thousands of British families will be kept apart following a court decision which ruled it was legal to put an income requirement on people bringing foreign spouses to the UK
The invisible report: The grim reality of the Home Office's sex abuse investigation

An anonymous investigator and an unread report: Exactly what did the Home Office do right in the sex abuse allegation case?

No public inquiry into child sex abuse… for now

Theresa May reacts to growing public concern over allegations of a Westminster paedophile ring with an inquiry which falls short of being full and public - but retains the power to do so if its chairman demands it
Gove smothers May with praise - while retreating from his extremism apology

Michael Gove fell over himself to praise Theresa May this morning - while subtly retreating from his apology over her handling of extremism.

Legal ruling proves the Home Office broke its promise on torture victims

The Home Office has broken its own promise on torture victims and it's admitted it in court
Khat ban comes into force despite fears Somali community will be criminalised

The long-awaited ban on khat comes into force at midnight, despite fears the move will criminalise communities from the Horn of Africa

In chaos & running out of time: Passport boss apologises for ruined holidays

The head of the Passport Office apologises to those who could miss their summer holidays due to delays in processing their documents
Boris Johnson buys water cannon in defiance of Theresa May

London mayor thought to have grown impatient with the home secretary.

Questions remain after May statement to the Commons

Questions about Theresa May's public spat with Michael Gove remain, even after an aggressive Commons performance from the home secretary
Putting a price on love: Half of Brits banned from living with a foreign partner

Nearly half of Brits working in the UK are banned from living with a spouse from outside the EU under the coalition's tough new anti-immigration law, new research reveals

Ofsted finds 'culture of fear' in Birmingham schools

Some of Birmingham's schools have seen an "organised campaign" to spread an intolerant version of Islam via the use of governors, Ofsted finds
Mutually assured destruction: May and Gove's leadership row humbles them both

Theresa May and Michael Gove's spat over extremism has ended in mutual humiliation, with May losing her closest adviser and Gove being forced to apologise