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New UK Government To Stop Housing Migrants On Accommodation Barge

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New UK Government To Stop Housing Migrants On Accommodation Barge

The UK has been grappling with a hefty asylum backlog. (Representational) London: Britain’s new Labour government announced Tuesday that it will stop housing migrants on a controversial accommodation barge from next year as it tries to clear a backlog of asylum requests. The interior ministry said the government would not renew the lease for the…

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UK’s New Government Vows To Remove 92 Unelected Peers From Upper House

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UK’s New Government Vows To Remove 92 Unelected Peers From Upper House

The House of Lords is comfortably larger than any other equivalent in a democracy. (File) London: The UK government on Wednesday announced plans to axe 92 House of Lords seats retained for hereditary lawmakers, resurrecting reform of the unelected chamber started under Tony Blair’s Labour government in the 1990s. King Charles III, opening the first…

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