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15 September 2026
UK politicsHome Office returns to France cost £56,000 each, Mahmood tells MPs
The home secretary called the figure an approximate cost per person returned under the UK-France scheme, but did not say whether it covers marginal removal costs or the programme’s total spending.
HealthThe NHS has promised cot cameras. It has not promised to install them.
The Thirlwall Inquiry wants a ring-fenced national rollout of cameras in every neonatal cot. Ministers have agreed in principle — and handed the hard part to officials.
UKThe Thirlwall report can expose NHS failure. It cannot tell families which babies would have lived.
Lady Justice Thirlwall’s report is the official account of how concerns about Lucy Letby were handled at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Its hardest task is separating institutional failure from claims about individual deaths that the evidence cannot prove.