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    Under plans being considered by Prime Minister Theresa May, EU migrants may be banned from the UK if they do not have a job. After saying that an Australian-style points system would fail to curb immigration levels in the UK earlier on Monday (5 September), the British prime minister is said to be looking at a work permit system whereby EU migrants cannot come to the country to look for work. But the points system that was touted during the EU referendum campaign could be "open to abuse" and would entitle migrants to "automatically" enter Britain if they had enough points, she said. "What the British people voted for on the 23rd of June was to bring some control into the movement of people from the European Union to the UK. A points-based system does not give you that cont...

    Anjem Choudary, who preached hate over two decades with seeming impunity from legal punishment, has been jailed for five years and six months for his activities to support Islamic State. Choudary was sentenced at the Old Bailey in London after his conviction in July for urging Muslims to support Isis in a series of talks posted on YouTube. He was convicted alongside his acolyte Mohammed Rahman, 33. Choudary, 49, avoided serious criminal charges for years, but his conviction for terrorism was agreed unanimously by a jury. The “hate preacher” and Rahman told their supporters to obey Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Isis leader, who is also known as a caliph, and travel to Syria to support “the caliphate”, the trial had heard. Choudary was a key figure for a succession of Islamist m...

    Keith Vaz has stood down as chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee following allegations he paid two male escorts for sex. The MP for Leicester East allegedly offered to cover the cost of cocaine if it was brought to his London flat, but refused to have any himself. The 59-year-old reportedly met two Eastern European escorts at his property in Edgeware and boasted to them about having unprotected sex, the Sunday Mirror reported. A series of text messages published by the newspaper allegedly show Mr Vaz asking for the legal high poppers to be brought to the meeting. The substance is widely used as a sex-enhancing drug. Voice recordings of a 90-minute meeting on 27 August, also purport to show Mr Vaz examining pictures of men on the gay dating app Grindr. Mr Vaz has p...

    How better to investigate the impact of cocaine than by offering it to guests, and observing its effects on mind and body close-up? How on earth is the Home Affairs committee chair to acquaint himself with the ins and outs of male prostitution, if not by having affairs at home with male prostitutes? An old-fashioned sex’n’drugs scandal graces tabloid front pages this sabbath – and even without any rock’n’roll to complete the trinity, nostalgists will be thrilled about that. It’s lovely to be reminded of that more innocent age, before the demise of News of the World, when dainty treats of this kind were a Sunday breakfast table staple. The fact that this one stars Keith Vaz, the erstwhile Home Affairs committee chair, gives extra savour to the dish. He has somehow survived ...

    British Prime minister declines to commit to points-based system and extra £100m a week for health service as Japan and US warn of exit risks to Britain May’s comments on the way to Hangzhou in China were made before what turned out to be a trying start to the international summit. She had been hoping to pitch the UK as a global leader in free trade during her first major outing on the world stage. However, she was immediately confronted with warnings about the consequences of leaving the EU, as well as diplomatic tensions with the Chinese over their proposed investment in UK nuclear power. Theresa May has cast doubt on whether Brexit will lead either to a points-based immigration system or an extra £100m a week for the NHS – two central promises made by the successful cam...