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A trade union that represents many Home Office staff is joining a legal action against the home secretary over “horrendous, inhumane and dangerous” conditions at the Manston processing centre for people arriving in the country by small boat. The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), the...

The government has conceded that the asylum processing centre at Manston in Kent is not operating legally, after the immigration minister said legal action had begun on behalf of some of those held there. The centre is supposed to hold a maximum of 1,600 people, and each for just 24 hours while...