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A Knife in Midhurst Gardens
Asylum Grant to Fatal Stabbing in Two Years
A routine dog walk in Uxbridge ends in death, exposing failures in asylum integration and rising knife crime that successive UK governments failed to curb.
asylum policy
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Home Office Contracts Fail, Asylum Bills Soar to £15 Billion
Flawed 2019 deals triple costs amid hotel reliance and unrecovered profits
UK asylum accommodation costs have ballooned to £15.3 billion due to flawed contracts and oversight lapses, revealing cross-party institutional failures that waste taxpayer funds and fuel social tensions. This pattern underscores broader governance decay unaffected by changes in power.
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£350 Boat, Lifetime Sentence
A rejected asylum seeker's random stabbing exposes systemic gaps in UK's migration controls
The fatal stabbing of a Derby man by a small boat migrant highlights failures in asylum processing and border enforcement that persist across governments, eroding public safety.