NEW: Kate Forbes tells she would have voted against equal marriage.
But as First Minister she will not 'row back on rights that already exist.'
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"They're not asylum shoppers they're asylum seekers... That's not true."
challenges immigration minister Robert Jenrick after he claims "asylum shoppers" should seek sanctuary in the first safe country they reach under the "Refugee Convention".
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As the Ilegal Migration Bill is debated today we’ve taken a look at ’s promise ‘to clear the asylum backlog’..
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.@RishiSunak promised to clear the asylum backlog by the end of this year.
That suggests one backlog.
But there’s actually a second ‘shadow’ backlog:
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And do click through for ’s report on the questionnaires sent to many stuck in the asylum backlogs:
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The Home Office wants to double the number of full time equivalent asylum caseworkers to 2,500. At the last count in December there were 1,237.
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. promised to clear the asylum backlog by the end of this year.
That suggests one backlog.
But there’s actually a second ‘shadow’ backlog:
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Giant barge may steal the headlines but here’s some important context about the asylum backlog.
How long it takes the Home Office to deal with claims is clearly a crucial factor:
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Huge credit to Ian Watkins and Sam Wapples for their excellent work developing our video wall debut.
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‘Teachers are leaving in droves’ says the .
I’ve been looking at the story behind the #TeacherStrike in England:
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Teachers in England are leaving 'in droves' according to the National Education Union.
Our Data Correspondent @C4Ciaran looks at the numbers behind the headline.
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Channel 4 News launches permanent Leeds newsroom as it becomes the first prime time news programme to co-present from two locations
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Didn’t expect to be chatting hot pants when I came to work today but a real pleasure to learn more about the life of Mary Quant
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“She liberated the leg.”
Vanessa Friedman, chief fashion critic of the New York Times, tells @c4ciaran that pioneering fashion designer Mary Quant was a “symbol of an era”.
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“There were three Black people in my little dairy sheep village - me, my Dad and my brother.”
Adjoa Andoh tells how her upbringing has helped shape her imagining of Shakespeare’s Richard III.
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Watch the full interview here:
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‘Do you happen to know if the SNP owns a Campervan?’
I asked Cabinet Secretary @S_A_Somerville..
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‘Simple question: does the legal advice suggest you are going to win this case?’
I asked the Scottish Government about its legal challenge on Gender Self-ID…
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“If we don’t take a stand now, we will simply see the situation within the NHS worsen.”
Patient safety is at the “forefront” of the British Medical Association’s concerns, member and junior doctor Vassili Crispi tells .
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Full interview with on voting , developments and whether he was helping into Number 10.
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I asked Douglas Ross about Tory HQ’s ‘emphatic’ response to his comments:
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I asked Douglas Ross Tory HQ’s ‘emphatic’ response to his comments:
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"I've not discussed this directly with the Prime Minister."
Douglas Ross, Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, tells that he hasn’t discussed comments about tactical voting to oust the SNP with Rishi Sunak.
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NEW: Douglas Ross tells me he did not consult Rishi Sunak over his tactical voting comments that Tory HQ ‘emphatically’ rejected today.
📺Interview on at 6.15pm
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“People are coming in with alternative hopes or expectations for what they think the theatre might be like.”
Cultural value researcher, Kirsty Sedgman discusses disturbance at The Bodyguard musical in Manchester with
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“There’s so much negativity about people who look like me that it makes a change to have something positive.”
Franstine Jones, who was the first woman president of the National Black Association tells about her invitation to the coronation.
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A day after his narrow victory in the SNP leadership race, Humza Yousaf was today confirmed as Scotland's First Minister - after Nicola Sturgeon had earlier tendered her resignation to the King.
reports from Holyrood.
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Humza Yousaf says he's the luckiest man in the world after he narrowly won election as the next leader of the Scottish National Party, gaining just over 52% of the vote.
reports.
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“The epidemic that is violence against women and girls.”
Deputy chief constable Maggie Blyth, of the National Police Chiefs' Council, tells new figures on the number of police officers accused of violence against women is “concerning”.
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👀Applications now open for the brilliant job of Scotland Correspondent👇
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Who was the best first minister? Should Sir Andy Murray be head of state? Were Gary Lineker's tweets a red card?
asks quick fire questions to the three Scottish first minister candidates during the SNP leadership debate.
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Humza Yousaf turns to Kate Forbes and says the Tories ‘don’t fear you, they are rooting for you.’ #NextLeaderOfScotland
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Who will be the next leader of Scotland?
Our poll has found that Kate Forbes is in the lead as the public's choice, but among SNP voters it's a different story.
crunches the numbers.
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