MPs demand action as freed Pakistani grooming gang leader is protected from deportation by legal loophole Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor. Murtaza Ali Shah Published 02 July 2026 9:53pm BST 5796 Gift this article free Add us as preferred source Labour is facing mounting pressure to change immigration laws immediately so that a child rapist freed from jail can be deported . Shabir Ahmed, 73, was sentenced to more than 20 years in jail after being convicted of 30 child rape offences as part of the Rochdale grooming gang. But on Thursday, the Pakistan-born rapist was released after serving 14 years. Britain stripped him of his citizenship, but cannot currently deport him because of protections granted to Commonwealth immigrants such as Ahmed under the Immigration Act 1971, as The Telegraph revealed on Monday . On Thursday, Downing Street said the Prime Minister had asked Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, to “consider what can be done” to deport Ahmed , describing ...
London and the South East already vastly subsidise the rest of the country. The answer is to liberate the North, not seize southern wealth Daily Telegraph 01/07/26 Link Andy Burnham is not so much King of the North as Slayer of the South. His government will fail, but not before inflicting immense damage on London and the Home Counties. He will ruin all that remains tolerable in our troubled nation, without fixing any of its pathologies. He will confiscate what little wealth southerners have been able to cling on to in the face of punitive taxation, stagnant wages and declining house prices, while failing to meaningfully spread opportunity to northerners. His gimmicky No 10 North , his pledge to spend much of his time in Manchester, his bogus “devolution” dedicated to unleashing dysfunctional bureaucrats to waste even more of the South’s tax pounds will prove to be a calamity. He is coming for southern homes, investments and income via his land value tax, death tax, higher capit...