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Lizzie Dearden

Former Home Affairs Editor@lizziedearden

Lizzie Dearden was The Independent's Home Affairs Editor until August 2023. Between 2017 and 2021, she was the Home Affairs and Security Correspondent, writing about extremism, terrorism, crime, policing and legal affairs.

<p>Suella Braverman warned that the risk from terrorism was rising last month, but the Commission for Countering Extremism has returned £1m of funding in two years</p>

Home Office body returns £1m funding for counterextremism work

<p>French authorities have been using money from the British government to improve security along the coastline </p>

Vow to stop small boats ‘delusionary’, former French ambassador says

<p>The ‘Bibby Stockholm’ remains empty at Portland Port in Dorset</p>

Watchdog demands meeting with immigration minister over asylum barge

<p>‘Notre Dame du Risban’, an SNSM lifeboat, enters the port of Calais following a rescue operation after a migrant boat trying to cross the Channel from France capsized</p>

Teenage survivor of migrant boat sinking arrested over disaster