Day: September 23, 2016

    Sixteen people have been arrested after police received reports of migrants in the back of a lorry on the M1. Hertfordshire Police were called at 2.55pm as the vehicle headed north towards Bedfordshire. The lorry was stopped just past junction 11. Some of the migrants were taken to hospital before being taken into police custody. Police said none of those arrested are thought to be seriously unwell. The case will now be handed to the UK Border Agency. Sky Correspondent David Bowden said it was not yet clear how the presence of the migrants in the lorry became known. He added: "If they are refugees then what tends to happen is as soon as they get onto UK soil, they jump out of whatever vehicle they're in, give themselves up and claim asylum. "If they don't do that, if they'...

    Theresa May alone will decide the terms of Britain’s departure from the EU, Downing Street has said after Boris Johnson began setting out a strategy for Brexit. Speaking in the United States, the Foreign Secretary on Thursday said that the UK will begin formal Brexit talks “early next year” and leave the EU by 2019. In comments that will delight Conservative Eurosceptics, he said that the discussions could be wrapped up before the two-year deadline and that Britain will be able to control its borders and do a “jumbo free trade deal”. He also suggested that countries like Australia could send more migrants to the UK in return for signing trade deals. And he said that it is “absolute baloney” to suggest that Britain will be unable to retain access to the European single mark...