The Home Office will seek to deport an asylum seeker after he was jailed for 12 months for sexual assaults on a woman and a 14-year-old girl under new deportation guidelines.
Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, who arrived in the UK on a small boat days before the incidents, was found guilty of five offences after a three-day trial at Chelmsford and Colchester Magistrates’ Courts.
Sources within the Home Office told GB News the process to deport Kebatu following his sentencing has already begun.
On Tuesday, a judge told the 38-year-old his behaviour "really highlights the poor regard you must have for women", adding Kebatu was "feeling sorry for yourself, knowing you were well and truly caught."
The sentencing hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court was told Kebatu wants to be deported after serving his time in prison, with his defence lawyer Molly Dyas adding it is a view he held "before the trial."
The court heard that the defendant also told a probation officer that the "United Kingdom was too strict" after being convicted of sexual assault.
Kebatu’s sentence comes as new rules come into force today that could see foreign prisoners deported at an earlier point in their sentence to free up jail space.
Those who are serving fixed-term sentences with no right to stay in the UK could be deported after serving 30 per cent of their jail term, instead of 50 per cent currently.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, when serving as Justice Secretary, also revealed plans for further reforms in August to deport eligible foreign prisoners immediately when they receive a custodial sentence.
This law change is included in the Sentencing Bill, currently going through Parliament.
The Home Secretary said: "Last minute attempts to frustrate a removal are intolerable, and I will fight them at every step. “We have taken immediate steps to tackle this issue by amending policy on September 17.
"I have also commissioned work to consider wider reforms and what more can be done to prevent misuse of the Modern Slavery system.
"I will fight to end vexatious, last-minute challenges. I will robustly defend the British public’s priorities in any court. And I will do whatever it takes to secure our border."
Pensioner tells GB News 'life is horrible' under Rachel Reeves in explosive outburst
A pensioner has launched a scathing GB News attack on Chancellor Rachel Reeves, declaring that older people are experiencing severe financial hardship under current economic policies.
Fergus McElland expressed his frustration during a GB News interview, stating: "We are being hammered, totally. It's horrible. Rachel from customer service is wrecking the country. It's terrifying."
The pensioner, who revealed he began working at age 11 and has contributed income tax throughout his life, voiced deep concern about the financial burden facing retirees.
Former Labour MP hits out at Your Party's 'embarrassing meltdown' as she joins the Greens
Thelma Walker has joined the Green Party
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A former Labour MP has joined the Green Party as she slammed the "embarrassing meltdown" of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's Your Party.
Thelma Walker, who represented the Colne Valley constituency from 2017 to 2019, has joined Zack Polanski's party, which has seen membership surge to over 77,000 paid-up members this week.
Mrs Walker, who stood for the Northern Independence Party at the Hartlepool by-election in 2021, finishing eighth, said Mr Polanski's leadership was one of the main reasons she joined the party.
She told The London Economic: "I didn’t intend to join any political party, as I felt staying independent and achieving a Labour and Green alliance could cut through. Then two things happened.
“First, the leadership of Zack Polanski. He is confronting the issues people care about, speaking to the media, and listening to understand the struggles of ordinary people.
"Secondly, the embarrassing meltdown of Your Party has shown neither Zara Sultana or Jeremy Corbyn are fit to lead a party following their very public spat.
"So here I am, ready to help in whatever way I can to end inequality, fight fascism and deliver an eco-socialist government."
REVEALED: Inside Nigel Farage's high-stakes bid to undo Boris Johnson's 'greatest betrayal' if he becomes PM
In a press conference on Monday, Nigel Farage unveiled his party's most radical plan yet to solve Britain's migration crisis.
The Reform UK leader promised to reverse the "Boriswave" if he won the next General Election.
Mr Farage told reporters: "In particular, what we’re focusing on this morning is the ‘Boriswave’. The Boris wave, after his huge victory in 2019. And I think the millions that came in the years of his premiership represents the greatest betrayal of democratic wishes, certainly in anyone’s living memory."
GB News Community Editor Adam Chapman has taken a look inside Reform UK's attempts to disentangle the so-called "Boriswave".
WATCH: Claire Coutinho reacts to Labour's Islamophobia law
Donald Trump slams 'windmills' in British countryside in UN address
Donald Trump has criticised the decision to put "windmills and massive solar panels" in the Scottish and English countryside.
In his United Nations General Assembly address, the US President said: "I want to stop seeing them ruining that beautiful Scottish and English countryside with windmills and massive solar panels that go seven miles by seven miles, taking away farmland.
"But we’re not letting this happen in America."
Reform UK Westminster councillor tells GB News 'Trump's not wrong'
Reform UK's councillor on Westminster City Council told GB News "Trump's not wrong" as she slammed Sadiq Khan.
Councillor Laila Cunningham told GB News: "Trump’s not wrong. Under Sadiq Khan, knife crime, robberies, sexual assaults and shoplifting have all soared on his watch. He’s been a terrible mayor.
"That’s what happens when you have a mayor that has de-prioritised safety. He hounds motorists with Ulez fines but stays silent when boys are stabbed our streets."
WATCH: Pensioners accuse Rachel Reeves of piling on taxes in GB News outburst
Pensioners have reacted with fury and dismay to proposals that could see them shoulder billions in additional taxes as the Chancellor grapples with mounting fiscal pressures.
"Appalling. I don't know what else to say, really. How are we going to live?" one pensioner told GB News when asked about recommendations for tax increases affecting older people.
Nigel Farage says Sir Ed Davey is 'obsessed' with him
Nigel Farage has responded to Sir Ed Davey's speech at the Liberal Democrat conference, accusing the party's leader of being "obsessed" with him.
The Clacton MP said: "Just watching poor Ed Davey speak. He is obsessed with me. I am happy to pay for a psychiatrist."
Ashfield MP Lee Anderson added: "Yes but it should be in a residential facility."
Sadiq Khan says he will 'not dignify' Donald Trump's claims about London with a response
Sadiq Khan said London is 'the greatest city in the world'
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Sir Sadiq Khan’s office said it would not "dignify" Donald Trump’s "appalling and bigoted comments" by responding to them.
A spokesman for the London Mayor said: "We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.
"London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here."
Wes Streeting - 'Sadiq Khan is not trying to impose Sharia Law on London'
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has denied President Donald Trump's claims that London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan is trying to impose Sharia Law on London.
The MP for Ilford North wrote on social media: "This is a Mayor who marches with Pride, who stands up for difference of background and opinion, who’s focused on improving our transport, our air, our streets, our safety, our choices and chances.
"[I am] Proud he’s our Mayor."
WATCH: Donald Trump eviscerates the United Nations in full-throttled attack before hitting out at Keir Starmer
US President Donald Trump used his United Nations (UN) address to launch an extraordinary attack on its leaders and Sir Keir Starmer.
Mr Trump appeared to take to the stage in a jovial mood, quipping that whoever was operating a faulty teleprompter is “in big trouble”.
Kemi Badenoch says Liberal Democrats are 'not serious'
As Sir Ed Davey made his speech at the Lib Dem conference, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch branded him and his party "not serious."
The Conservative leader wrote on social media: "In the past year, the Lib Dems have backed Keir Starmer in Parliament over 120 times.
"They are not a serious opposition party."
In his closing speech, Sir Ed mentioned Reform UK leader Nigel Farage by name 30 times, US President Donald Trump 24 times and tech billionaire Elon Musk 10 times.
The leaders of the Conservative Party and Labour were only mentioned once each.
Donald Trump claims London wants to 'go to sharia law' under Sadiq Khan
President Donald Trump addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly
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Donald Trump has claimed London wants to "go to sharia law" as he took aim at Sadiq Khan.
In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, the US president claimed the UN was "funding an assault on Western countries and their borders."
He said: "Europe is in serious trouble. They have been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before."
President Trump went on: "I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed.
"Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.
"Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something isn’t done immediately. This cannot be sustained."
Nigel Farage 'helped cause' Britain's migration crisis - Sir Ed Davey
Sir Ed Davey sought to portray the Lib Dems as the only party offering an alternative vision of change to Reform UK at the next election.
He said: “It comes down to us or Nigel Farage: Liberal Democrat change – true to British values, transforming our economy, our public services and our politics, the real change people crave, or Farage’s change.
“Change away from the country we love, change towards Trump’s America.”
Sir Ed also claimed Mr Farage “helped cause” the migration crisis the UK is now facing.
He told the Lib Dem party conference: “Who was it who campaigned to rip up 27 return agreements, where in the EU, the United Kingdom could legally and fairly return people who had no right to be here?
“Yes, it was Boris and the Conservatives, but it was also Nigel Farage. He helped cause this crisis and he should apologise.”
Ed Davey issues direct message to Tory voters in keynote speech
Sir Ed Davey issued a direct message to dissatisfied Tory voters thinking of switching away from their traditional party.
The Lib Dem leader said: “My message to millions of former Conservative voters, millions of one nation Conservatives who reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage, my message to you is this: Come and talk to us.
“About our ideas to grow the economy. Cut crime. Defend our nation.
“Come and join us. To oppose this failing Labour Government and offer our great country real change.
“Come, Conservative friends. Help us save our country. Come and win with us.”
Sir Ed Davey making closing speech at Lib Dem conference
Sir Ed Davey is making his closing speech at the party conference
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Sir Ed Davey has appeared on stage to make the closing speech of the Liberal Democrats’ party conference.
He walked on stage to the soundtrack of Tony Christie’s Is This The Way to Amarillo?
The party’s MPs sat and stood on the conference stage behind their leader.
'Reform pedal conspiracy theories and cosy up to anti-vaxxers' - Lib Dem treasurer
Lib Dem Treasurer, Tilly McAuliffe, said Reform UK are 'reheated Conservatives'
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Speaking at the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth, Lib Dem Treasurer, Tilly McAuliffe, described Reform UK as "reheated" Conservatives.
She said: "Reform try and convince people they are fresh. They're not. They are reheated, hard-right Tories with angrier slogans and nastier soundbites. The same failed ideas.
"But if we don't move fast, they will sell themselves as the alternative, the new kids on the block to solve all our problems."
"They pedal conspiracy theories, they cosy up to anti-vaxxers at their conference, Ms McAuliffe added.
"...They shout scare stories and offer no solutions. We do."
Ed Davey will soon deliver speech at Lib Dem conference
Ed Davey will deliver his speech at the final day of the Liberal Democrat party conference in Bournemouth this afternoon.
He is expected to call on US cancer researchers fleeing an "anti-science agenda" to come to Britain and pledge to make arrangements for cancer to be a "top priority" for the NHS.
The party leader will also accuse Reform members of supporting the Trump administration's move to cut millions of pounds of research into mRNA vaccines, based on "totally false conspiracy theories".
Robert Jenrick calls for the 'immediate' deportation of 'every illegal migrant' in Britain after Ethiopian asylum seeker jailed for sexual assault
Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was today handed a 12-month prison sentence after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl just days after arriving in the UK by small boat.
Reacting to the news, Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick MP said: "This truly despicable man must be booted out the country immediately.
"As I’ve said for years, I am sick to death of men like this - from backwards cultures - breaking into our country on small boats.
"It is shameful that parents were smeared as ‘racist’ for protesting against appalling behaviour by small boat migrants. They’re not - they’re good parents who want to keep their children safe.
"No human rights treaty is more important than the safety of the British people. Every illegal migrant must be deported from the county immediately.”
'This vile crime should never have been allowed to happen', says Shadow Home Secretary as Ethiopian asylum seeker sentenced
An Ethiopian asylum seeker living in a hotel in Epping, Essex, has today been sentenced to 12 months in jail after being found guilty of five charges, including two of sexual assault.
Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl just days after arriving in the UK by small boat.
Speaking after the sentencing, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: "Justice has now been served and the Government must now deport this criminal immediately.
"The reality is this vile crime should never have been allowed to happen.
“In Epping, people protested for weeks because to close the Bell Hotel, but Labour’s response was not to listen, rather to drag the local council through the courts to keep the hotel open and silence the local community.
“Towns like Epping should never have been put in this position.
"Illegal immigrants should not be housed in hotels, they should be deported.
"The Conservatives will pass our Deportation Bill, shut the hotels, ensure every foreign national offender is removed from Britain with no exceptions, and restore the rule of law so that towns in Britain never have to go through this again.”
Ed Davey plays cricket on Bournemouth beach as final day of party's conference underway
Sir Ed Davey was pictured playing a game of cricket with his MPs
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Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey played a game of cricket on the beach in Bournemouth with his MPs, at the start of the final day of the party’s conference.
The Lib Dem leader arrived at the seafront with West Dorset MP Edward Morello, both carrying a cricket bat.
Sir Ed wore a white polo shirt and had a line of sun lotion smeared on each cheek.
The Lib Dem leader and Mr Morello were team captains for the game and each selected players from a team of the party’s MPs.
Vikki Slade, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole, was the last left standing once the teams were chosen, and joined Sir Ed’s team by default.
Sir Ed joked that he wanted to call off his conference keynote speech and play cricket for the rest of the day.
He is expected to use the wide-ranging speech to continue his spat with Elon Musk, and to welcome US scientists, who have had their cancer research work halted, to the UK.
EU set to scupper Nigel Farage's plan to save £234bn from migrant benefit cuts with 4.2m Europeans exempt from changes
Nigel Farage's plan to save £234billion by banning non-UK citizens from claiming benefits is facing questions as it emerged there would be a carve-out for EU citizens with settled status.
The party has said it would axe the right of migrants to apply for indefinite leave to remain, ban anyone who is not a UK citizen from claiming benefits and force those applying for UK citizenship to renounce other citizenship.
But it has exempted EU citizens with settled status from its plans to ban migrant access to benefits and its policies on indefinite leave to remain (ILR).
European sources have questioned why it would agree to the proposals which would "make EU nationals worse off than they are now".
According to The Times, one European diplomat said: "It takes two to tango in a treaty negotiation, why would we agree to reopen this very sensitive Brexit legacy to make EU nationals worse off than they are now."
UK facing highest level of inflation of any major economy this year - OECD warns
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) has warned that higher taxes and reduced Government spending will drag on the UK economy.
Growth is forecast to ease from 1.4 per cent this year to just 1 per cent in 2026.
Inflation is expected to remain among the highest in the G7, with food costs driving up prices.
Business Secretary to visit Jaguar Land Rover after major cyber attack
Business Secretary Peter Kyle will visit Jaguar Land Rover to meet firms in the supply chain for the carmaker following a cyber attack.
JLR, the UK’s largest carmaker, has paused production in the wake of a major cyber attack, having a knock-on impact to the companies which supply it.
Industry minister Chris McDonald said: “We have two priorities, helping Jaguar Land Rover get back up and running as soon as possible and the long-term health of the supply chain.
“The Business Secretary and I are visiting JLR today to host companies in the supply chain, to listen to workers and hear how we can support them and help get production back online.
“We are acutely aware of the difficulties the stoppage is causing for those suppliers and their staff, many of whom are already taking a financial hit through no fault of their own – and we will do everything we can to reassure them that the Government is on their side.”
Wes Streeting urges people to ignore Donald Trump's claims about link between paracetamol and autism
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has urged pregnant women to ignore Donald Trump’s claims about a link between taking paracetamol and autism.
The US president said there had been a “meteoric rise” in cases of autism and suggested that Tylenol, which is called paracetamol in the UK, is a potential cause.
But Mr Streeting told ITV’s Lorraine: “I would just say to people watching, don’t pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine.”
WATCH: Housing minister says Labour 'pulling on every lever to get Britain building' more homes
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WATCH: Conservative Party chairman accuses Reform of 'copying' Tory policies on illegal migration
Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party membership portal shut down after 'potentially fraudulent activity' complaints
The membership portal for Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party was shut down after "potentially fraudulent activity" complaints.
Co-founder of the new party, Zarah Sultana, however said "everybody's money is still safe".
"The system is down because the software hosts received complaints about ‘potential fraudulent activity’ and then froze the account," she told the Telegraph.
"We are working with the hosts and hope to have it restored soon. Everybody’s money is still safe.“
"Once the system is restored, everyone who signed up will be contacted using the email address they used to register, including information on how to obtain a refund.”
A public spat between the two Your Party founders occurred following the launch of the membership portal last week, with Ms Sultana saying she had been subjected to a "sexist boy's club".
Rachel Reeves now urged to make pensioners pay for Budget 'black hole' in unprecedented tax raid
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged to move the tax burden towards pensioners
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Rachel Reeves has been urged by an influential Labour-linked think tank to move the tax burden away from young, working Britons and towards pensioners.
The Resolution Foundation has suggested Ms Reeves should hike income tax by two per cent - while slashing the National Insurance rate by the same amount.
The move could raise £6billion for the Government as income tax is also paid by pensioners and self-employed Britons, while workers on a salary would see the hike cancelled out by the NI drop.
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