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Official records released by British and Irish archives include details of an Irish priest’s unauthorised refugee settlement in Co Wicklow and a ‘republican’ artefact thief
Tony Blair’s government discussed plans to house asylum seekers at a camp on the Isle of Mull as part of a “nuclear option” to drive down numbers entering the UK.
The former prime minister was told by his chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, that the then-deputy prime minister 'does not like the Press accusing him of having no job'.
Report set out ‘radical measures’ to reduce numbers arriving, including setting up holding camps on Scottish island of Mull
Reclusive billionaire twins notorious for use of tax havens met then prime minister Tony Blair in 1999