Latest Theresa May news

The Government is making contingency plans to cope with a potential increase in immigration should the euro currency collapse, the Home Secretary has revealed.

Gay comic Julian Clary has likened the arguments over same-sex marriages to the suffragette struggle in the early 20th century, it has been reported.

The Home Office is planning for a possible large increase in immigration from Greece and other European Union nations in response to the crisis in the euro, Theresa May has revealed.

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's former special adviser has told the Leveson Inquiry he was told to resign after damaging emails revealing the close relationship between his department and the Murdoch empire were released.

A contingent of border guards has been sent in to help maintain law and order in Tel Aviv neighbourhoods rocked by race riots, a police spokesman said on Friday.

Violent race riots that shook south Tel Aviv overnight sparked shock in Israel on Thursday, but also prompted top-level calls for the immediate arrest and expulsion of tens of thousands of African migrants.

A clearer definition of what constitutes police corruption is needed to improve public confidence, a report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has found.

Violence broke out as several hundred people demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night against the sizeable community of African immigrants in the city, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Athletics Kenya (AK) has defended the country's athletes against doping allegations made by German national broadcaster ARD and said on Wednesday it would investigate the claims. Last weekend's "Sportschau" programme, under the headline 'Kenyan runners under doping suspicion', claimed widespread abuse …

OSLO (Reuters) - Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is a "cowardly little man," one of his teenage victims said on Wednesday, after showing a court the scars left by four bullets that had pierced her body. Ylva Helene Schwenke, 15, described how Breivik had shot her in the neck and then several more times as she lay bleeding …

Kate McCann has hailed the launch of two initiatives to help find missing children.

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has arrested 45 Chinese illegal textiles traders in its main northern city of Kano and plans to deport them, the city's top immigration official said on Wednesday. Nigerian law forbids foreigners from certain trades meant to be reserved for locals, including selling clothes. "Our men arrested 45 …

World leaders and politicians guilty of human rights abuses will be banned from entering Britain for the 2012 London Olympics, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.

SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - U.S. border patrol agents found 13 illegal immigrants in the back of a fake UPS van after they noticed the brown vehicle with yellow insignia trying to circumvent a highway checkpoint, the agency said on Tuesday. The agents arrested the passengers, identified as Mexican citizens without legal immigration …

Government plans to enable residents to force police to take action over anti-social behaviour after three separate incidents or five complaints are not good enough, a victims' group has said.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who aims to turn a September 12 election into a referendum on the euro and EU membership, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday aimed at postponing the Dutch parliament's ratification of Europe's permanent bailout fund until after the vote. Wilders' move comes amid popular resentment …

People could be queuing at airports for up to four hours during the London Olympics, the chief of the UK Border Force has admitted.

Anti-social behaviour orders are to be scrapped under Government plans to speed up the response to complaints from the public.

The new set of measures set to replace controversial anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) were revealed by Home Secretary Theresa May on Tuesday.

Leftist guerrillas killed 12 Colombian army troops Monday and wounded four others in an ambush in a rural area in the northern tip of Colombia near the border with Venezuela, authorities said.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former German central banker Thilo Sarrazin, whose musings on Muslim immigrants sparked outrage in 2010, has triggered fresh controversy with a book that paints Germany as the euro zone's hostage, forced to pay out vast sums to atone for the Holocaust. In extracts of his book "Europe doesn't need the …

An official website to help find missing and abducted children from the UK has been relaunched by the police's specialist child protection agency.

Foreign travellers coming to the UK from countries with a high incidence of tuberculosis (TB) will have to be screened for the potentially fatal infection before being granted a visa under new rules, the Immigration Minister has said.