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FIRST BRITISH EVACUEES FROM SUDAN ARRIVE IN CYPRUS Warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire The first British civilians evacuated from Sudan arrived on the island of Cyprus, Cyprus’s foreign ministry said, airlifted out by Britain after warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire. A passenger plane belonging to Britain’s Royal Air Force with about 40 civilians on board landed at Cyprus’s Larnaca airport, said a foreign ministry spokesperson. Evacuees took shelter at Larnaca’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, before boarding buses and leaving the airport. Authorities had expected 40 people, though another diplomatic source said there were 39 people on…

JUDGES OVERRULING GOVERNMENT REMOVAL DECISIONS ‘TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE’ Home Secretary defends Government Policy  The illegal migration Bill returns to the Commons this afternoon. She said: “People who are coming here illegally are breaking our laws. they are criminals and they don’t have a right to be here.” She said that entering the UK illegally is “at odds with our values”. “You don’t have a legal right to be in the United Kingdom,” she added. The home secretary said people should apply for visas and official permission to come to the UK, and “not on a boat, surreptitiously, dangerously, fatally so, where…

RISHI SUNAK CELEBRATES HITTING POLICE RECRUITMENT TARGET ‘Promise made, promise kept’ says Sunak The prime minister has hailed the news this morning that the government achieved its 2019 manifesto pledge of recruiting 20,000 police officers. The total recruited since the last election is 20,951, according to government figures released in the past few minutes. Rishi Sunak tweeted: “In 2019 we promised to recruit 20,000 additional police officers in England and Wales to make our streets safer and protect communities. “Today, I’m pleased to say we have delivered that promise.” The tweet was accompanied by a police siren gif with the…

Drivers and train passengers have been warned they face congestion and disruption over the bank holiday weekend, with motoring organisations forecasting the biggest early May getaway for seven years and a main rail line partly closed. The RAC said it estimated 17.2m leisure trips would be taken by car in the UK between Friday 28 April and Monday 1 May, the most for the May bank holiday since 2016. Congestion is likely to be worse on the month’s first bank holiday than the subsequent long weekend break for the coronation, when the RAC expects fewer than 15m leisure trips. The…

All key figures involved in the pandemic response will be required to hand over their WhatsApp messages to the Covid public inquiry, the chairman of the independent investigation has decided. Baroness Hallett has announced that all government ministers and advisers with a significant role in the crisis will be asked to release the private communications. It comes in the wake of The Lockdown Files, when The Telegraph obtained more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages between Matt Hancock, the then health secretary, and dozens of senior government figures including Boris Johnson, the then prime minister; Rishi Sunak, then the chancellor; Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary; and dozens…

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AIM TO TURN NORTH SEA INTO GREEN POWER ENGINE To strengthen energy security by developing a combined 120 Gigawatts of power Leaders from European countries surrounding the North Sea pledged to rapidly scale up offshore wind power generation in the region to strengthen energy security, at a summit in Ostend, Belgium. Leaders from seven European Union countries, including France, Germany and the Netherlands, alongside non-EU countries Norway and Britain pledged to speed up their buildout of wind farms, develop “energy islands” – or connected renewable generation sites at sea – and work on carbon capture and renewable hydrogen…

HIKE IN UK PUBLIC SECTOR BORROWING Chancellor blames ‘eye-watering sums’ spent on pandemic and energy bills support  Initial estimates for March show that the public sector spent more than it received in taxes and other income, requiring it to borrow £21.5bn. The chancellor has blamed the “eye-watering sums” spent on helping people through the coronavirus pandemic and energy crisis for an increase in public sector borrowing. Public sector net borrowing was £21.5bn last month – the second-highest March borrowing since monthly records began in 1993. This means that the public sector spent more than it received in taxes and other…

The British government is preparing to take advantage of a 72-hour ceasefire agreed by the warring factions in Sudan to evacuate UK nationals from the country, following intense criticism that it had missed a window of opportunity to evacuate more than only British diplomats and their families on Sunday. Military flights open to British passport-holders would depart from an airfield outside the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, the Foreign Office said. Priority would be given to family groups with children, the elderly and individuals with medical conditions. The Foreign Office told citizens not to travel to the airfield unless they were contacted, as it…

Diane Abbott’s local party and Labour officials will decide whether she can stand again at the next election, a shadow minister has said, after Abbott lost the Labour whip for her comments about racism. Abbott made comments suggesting that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people were not subject to racism “all their lives”. John Mann, the former Labour MP who is now a peer and advises the government on antisemitism, suggested it might be best if Abbott, an MP since 1987, did not stand again for her London constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington. But Pat McFadden, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury,…

David Moyes said his players “have to keep stepping up” after West Ham ended the perfect week with a vital 4-0 victory at Bournemouth to boost their survival chances. Moyes’s side fought back from two down to draw with Arsenal, the Premier League leaders, last Sunday and followed it up with a 4-1 win against Gent on Thursday to book their spot in the Europa Conference League semi-finals. Relegation has remained a distinct possibility, though, but they eased those concerns with a clinical display where first-half goals by Michail Antonio, Lucas Paquetá and Declan Rice put them in control. Pablo Fornals, on as a substitute,…