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    Border Force officers waited at Dover to interview the six people. Six migrants who were trying to reach the Kent coast in a small boat have been rescued from a sandbank in the English Channel. The boat was spotted at about 05:40 BST, the Home Office said. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) sent a search and rescue helicopter and a boat. A Home Office spokesman said: "Six men were recovered from the boat and are due to be interviewed by Border Force officers." The migrants were discovered at the Varne sandbank about seven miles off Dover. This is the eighth rescue of migrants in small boats made by Border Force officers off the Kent and Sussex coast since March. Earlier this year, the National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed migrants trying to reach the UK were paying sm...

    Ed Balls has warned that Jeremy Corbyn’s leftist utopian fantasy will not return the Labour Party to government. The former shadow chancellor made the criticism within an analysis of Labour’s 2015 election campaign, which he described as astonishingly dysfunctional. Refusing to listen to the electorate has never been a winning formula, any more than Jeremy Corbyn thinking the volume of the cheering from your core supporters is a reliable guide to wider public opinion, he said.Caution will not win the day; but nor will Jeremy Corbyn's leftist utopian fantasy, devoid of connection to the reality of people's lives. In his memoir, Speaking Out, which is being serialised in The Times, Mr Balls reveals that he and Ed Miliband barely spoke during the 2015 election campaign, and s...

    Britain can be more successful outside of the European Union, a former governor of the Bank of England has said. Lord King of Lothbury also suggested a future decline in UK productivity could be a result of the Remain camp exaggerating the repercussions of the Brexit vote. He maintained we don’t really know how our economy will fare outside of the EU and that any predictions were highly speculative. We are now in a better position to rebalance the UK economy, Lord King told Central Banking magazine. An unfortunate aspect of the campaign was the government forecasts of what the consequences of Brexit might be, which inevitably were highly speculative, in particular for the long run. The problem is that the long-run judgment then feeds back to the short-run forecast because ...

    Two pilots were arrested yesterday after allegedly attempting to board their flight to America while drunk. Concerns were raised after the pair tried to pass through a staff check-in at Glasgow Airport before the 9am flight to Newark, New Jersey. Police were called and the United Airlines flight UA162 was grounded after they were detained. The incident came six weeks after another two pilots suspected of being over the limit were arrested at Glasgow before they took charge of a long-haul passenger flight. The United Airlines pair are being held over the weekend at Govan police station, about five miles from the airport, reports the Sunday Mail. It’s understood each has the rank of first officer with the airline. A source said: “Concerns were raised and police were called. ...