The SNP manifesto for that election should "state on page one, line one" that a vote for the party is a vote for "Scotland to become an independent country".
It makes clear that as the UK government has continued to "unjustly block a democratic referendum" the next Westminster general election - expected to take place some time in 2024 - could be a "means to offer that opportunity". Members are set to vote on a potential new policy that could see talks on leaving the UK start if the party wins a majority of Scottish seats at the next general election.Ī motion from SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf and Westminster leader Stephen Flynn in support of that is to be debated at the party's conference next month.
The SNP has today been accused of pursuing a "crackpot alternative" to a second independence referendum. It would also create so-called Nightingale courts - echoing the pop-up facilities brought in post-COVID - to speed up any legal challenges to asylum decisions and ensure removals are processed. Labour plans to tackle these figures by hiring over 1,000 new caseworkers for the Home Office, with increased pay to "improve productivity", and recruiting 1,000 staff to man a new returns unit, with fast-track decisions on applications from safe countries processed "within weeks". Of those, 139,961 had been waiting more than six months - a 57% from last year and another record high. The backlog of asylum claims in the UK hit a record high in the same month, with a total of 175,457 people waiting for an initial decision on their application - up 44% from 2022 and the highest figure since records began in 2010.
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"Labour has a serious plan to end the government's wasteful spending on hotels and return people who have no right to be here."įigures from the Home Office at the end of August showed more than 51,000 asylum seekers were being housed in hotels, costing around £6m per day, while the full bill for the accommodation in the last financial year was £2.28bn. All we have had from this government is gimmicks not grip. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: "Tory chaos at our borders and in the asylum system is costing taxpayers billions and must come to an end. Outlining its latest policy pledges, the party said it would also clear the growing backlog of asylum cases and speed up the return of those who fail to meet the threshold.Īs a result of its measures, Labour claimed long-standing facilities for housing asylum applicants - with space for 58,000 people - would be sufficient, meaning not only would hotels becomes redundant, but so would barges and military sites. Labour has promised to end the use of hotels for asylum seekers if it gets into power at the next election. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper today visited Europol in The Hague, the Netherlands, to meet with European leaders.Rishi Sunak has conceded it is "very hard" for the government to continue to meet targets on reducing NHS waiting times in the midst of strike action.Three Metropolitan Police officers are facing allegations of gross misconduct after the strip-search of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 2020.Penny Mordaunt compared Sir Keir Starmer to "beach Ken" in the blockbuster film Barbie, while hitting out at the Labour leader's record.Two women who were detained at a vigil held in memory of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, who was killed by a serving police officer, have called for the Met Police to be "abolished".Thanks for sticking with us through another busy day in the heart of Westminster, and this week's final episode of The Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge.īefore you go, here's everything you need to know.
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