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  • Indian origins among 19,000 illegal migrants deported from UK

    Indian origins among 19,000 illegal migrants deported from UK

    Indian restaurants among targets of UK ‘blitz’ against illegal migrants

    LONDON (TIP): Days after US President Donald Trump’s government crackdown on immigration, the United Kingdom’s Labour government also launched mass raids on illegal working in the country. Described as a “UK-wide blitz,” the crackdown has extended to Indian restaurants, nail bars, convenience stores, and car washes, which employ migrant workers.

    Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said her department’s Immigration Enforcement teams had a record-breaking January, descending on 828 premises—a 48 per cent rise compared to the previous January, with arrests surging to 609, a 73 per cent increase from the previous year. A visit to one Indian restaurant in Humberside, northern England, alone led to seven arrests and four detentions.

    This comes as the Labour Party government’s Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill returns to Parliament for its second reading this week. The new legislation aims to “smash the criminal gangs” that Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s administration says undermine border security. A total of 1,090 civil penalty notices have been issued during that phase, with employers facing a fine of up to GBP 60,000 per worker if found liable.

    In January, the government claimed to have smashed its target to drive the removal of foreign criminals and immigration offenders to the highest level since 2018, with 16,400 people removed since the July 2024 general election.

    (With inputs from PTI)

  • UK’s Labour to win big: YouGov forecasts 431 seats to Labour against 102 to Conservatives

    UK’s Labour to win big: YouGov forecasts 431 seats to Labour against 102 to Conservatives

    LONDON (TIP): In sharp contrast to rise of the right in most European countries, UK is all set  to  have a Labour Party government. Britain’s opposition Labour Party is on track to win the largest majority of any party in modern history in Thursday’s election, according to a final YouGov projection published by the Times on Wednesday, July 3.

    The multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) analysis predicted that Labour would win 431 seats, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives expected to win 102. It gave Labour a majority of 212 seats. The pollster said 89 seats were considered “tossups”, with five percentage points or fewer between first and second place. Even in a best case scenario the result for the Conservatives is significantly worse than the party’s previous worst election result in 1906, when it won 156 seats, YouGov said.

    (Agencies)

     

  • New Zealand PM quits ahead of Oct elections: Feb 7 last day in office

    New Zealand PM quits ahead of Oct elections: Feb 7 last day in office

    NEW DELHI (TIP): New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who became a global icon of the left after being elected the world’s youngest female head of state five and a half years ago, on Thursday, January 19,  announced her decision to quit her job due to vicious attacks and dwindling prospects of her party winning the next elections, according to a TNS report.

    A teary-eyed Ardern said in Napier that February 7 would be her last day as PM. “I know what this job takes, and I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It’s that simple,” she said.

    “The pressures on PMs are always great, but in this era of social media, clickbait and 24/7 media cycles, Jacinda has faced a level of hatred and vitriol which in my experience is unprecedented in our country,” said former New Zealand PM Helen Clark in a statement. In 2018, she became the second world leader to give birth while holding office (after Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto) and in September of that year, she had brought her infant daughter to the floor of the UN General Assembly in New York.

    In 2019, Arden was lauded for handling the killing of 51 worshippers in two Christchurch mosques by a white supremacist. She also wanted tertiary education partially free, was focused on child poverty and decriminalized abortion besides calling out sexism in politics.

    She also said the next General Election would be held on October 14 but her Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson too has said he won’t contest the leadership of the Labour Party.

    Ardern’s popularity had declined due to rising living costs, growing crime and concern about social issues.