EXCL: Home Office staff blew £10k of taxpayer cash on dinner at a swanky London restaurant.
Ministers were unaware of the mega bill and are now looking to get oversight of all civil service hospitality spending.
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Drinkers will be able to buy booze with digital ID next year to spare the faff of taking physical documents on a night out
Tech Secretary Peter Kyle takes me for a pint to spill his plans 👇
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Comes as Britain signs a new small boats deal with Germany
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Home Office Minister Angela Eagle concedes that smuggling gangs will always adapt to evade government immigration measures.
She says: “Just because you have to play whack-a-mole doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to take down organised immigration crime”.
Went on a County Lines raid with Policing Minister Dame Diana Johnson to watch a suspected drugs criminal get arrested.
He is alleged to use kids to shift crack and heroin from London to Brighton. Cops paid him a visit before dawn...
Watch here 👇
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Masterchef should be pulled off air until Gregg Wallace probe completes, Labour MP says
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Victoria Atkins says high migration numbers under the Tories last year were due to them increasing humanitarian routes.
Victoria Derbyshire rightly points out that was just a fraction of overall arrivals. 👇
Govt press release says the missions themselves "are part of a decade of national renewal, built on the foundations of a stable economy, national security and secure borders."
Grilled on why immigration is not one of Labour's "five missions", Pat McFadden promises the issue will feature heavily in the govt's Plan For Change paper next week.
But, like Starmer, dismisses need for a numerical cap on numbers.