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“Everyone in our society should have a safe place to live and no one should be punished for experiencing homelessness."
Mr Johnson told his cabinet this week that leaving the EU without a deal should hold “no fear” for Britain, but was he right?
Access to vital EU crime-fighting databases could be lost, MPs told – after Theresa May warns they ‘keep us safe’.
Sir Ian Blair rejects Priti Patel’s claim nation will made safer through ‘tougher’ post-Brexit powers.
Government document reveals plans to ditch tool that allows for fast extradition of criminals.
Ten EU member states have said they will no longer extradite their nationals to the UK following Brexit, the Home Office has said.
Dozens of British security officials working at Europol will be ejected from the European crime-fighting agency in the event of a no-deal Brexit, putting thousands of criminal investigations in the UK at grave risk of collapse.
The cost to protect the UK market from cheap and illegal food imports has soared by 1000 per cent since 2015 as part of Government preparations for Brexit.
Non-binding opinion says UK allowed criminal gangs to flood Europe with cheap Chinese-made clothes.
Britain has lost "significant" access to EU policing data under the Brexit deal negotiated at the end of last year, a House of Lords report has said.
Former security commissioner warns of ‘immediate impact’ on tackling terrorism and crime.
Alternatives 'might need to be pursued', James Brokenshire tells inquiry - prompting demands to reveal how UK will be 'protected'.
Officials feared ‘reputational impact’ of error in which details of crimes by foreigners were not passed on. / The UK has failed to pass on the details of 75,000 convictions of foreign criminals to their home EU countries and concealed the scandal for fear of damaging Britain’s reputation in Europe’s capitals, the Guardian can reveal.
UK set to lose access to Schengen Information System that police across continent use to stop criminals.
It is "likely" the UK will leave Europol in the wake of Brexit unless a deal is made, the Home Secretary has said.
A group of Tories have called for Boris Johnson to reopen Brexit negotiations amid concerns his deal has left the UK 'less safe and less secure'.
An analysis by the party suggests the European Criminal Records Information System is used 250 times a day by UK police and courts. / Theresa May’s “overly dogmatic” approach to the Brexit negotiations risks police losing access to vital shared criminal databases with the EU used an estimated 250 times a day by UK authorities, the Liberal Democrats have warned.
France, Germany and Poland say they will refuse to allow extradition of their nationals.
However, this article seeks to describe, as far as possible, how Brexit has affected the business and regulatory environment across the full range of areas covered by Steptoe and Johnson practices so far, and to identify issues of potential future concern for companies.
Even limited agreement reached will be ripped up if UK pulls out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Talks to rebuild security cooperation with the EU must restart now after the Brexit deal left the UK “less safe and less secure”, a Conservative group says.
EU Law expert Professor Michael Dougan has analysed Theresa May's Brexit speech.
Post-Brexit cooperation between the UK and the EU on law enforcement and criminal justice is sub-optimal, according to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee.
Although the final Brexit deal agreed between the UK and the EU contained a mutual commitment to future security and law enforcement cooperation, there is no doubt that the settlement resulted in an overall lessening of policing capability.