Politics

Is Rishi Sunak meeting his asylum pledge?

It has been a year since the prime minister pledged to clear the legacy backlog, so how is he getting on?

Politics

Rishi Sunak seeks to calm minimum income visa fears

The prime minister suggests migrant families already in the UK may get exemptions from higher wage rules.

Politics

Addicted to division: Sunak beset by warring Tory factions

Ministers and backbenchers will be at loggerheads up until the next election, one minister predicts.

Politics

Redcar hydrogen trial scrapped by government

Proposed Redcar hydrogen trial is halted because the main source of the gas supply is not available.

Politics

Just 408 non-Albanian small boat migrants returned home since 2020

The Bibby Stockholm asylum barge off Dorset cost £22m, the Home Office has also disclosed.

Sports

Cavs fans fired up over title win

THEY didn’t exactly steal a firetruck, but Cleveland fans have made good use of it as part of their celebrations of the Cavaliers’ first NBA title.

Sports

McGuire not yet done as Pies president

EDDIE McGuire has told fellow club chairmen there is more work to be done in the precinct surrounding the club’s opulent Melbourne Park home base before he hands over the presidency.

Sports

Day’s gamble fails as sand traps strike

JASON Day recorded yet another top-10 finish at a major but was left to rue what might have been after his unlikely final round US Open charge was snuffed out in a sand trap.

Sports

Response from Eddie, AFL not nearly enough

THERE’S so much wrong about the Eddie McGuire-James-Brayshaw-Danny Frawley pack mentality attack of Caroline Wilson. As was the AFL’s insipid response on Monday.

Sports

Titans v Sea Eagles: Five things we learned

NATHAN Peats finally looks like he settling, and Ryan James is proving the doubters wrong. Here’s what else we took from the Titans’ victory.