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🚨JUST IN: The former mayor of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire is set to be deported back to his home nation of Latvia following a rape conviction. Aigars Balsevics, previously a Tory party member, was jailed for 6 years and a half years in 2023. A First-tier Tribunal judge had originally found in 2025 that deportation would be “unduly harsh” on his children and allowed his human rights appeal, but the Secretary of State successfully challenged this ruling, arguing that the judge had misapplied the law. In 2020, Balsevics was granted settled status in the UK, having arrived in the country to study around 2003/2004. Current Wisbech Tory councillor Steve Tierney said he "believed people deserved a second chance", and cited a report that noted that his children missed their father. However, the same report also recorded that they had witnessed domestic abuse, with the son experiencing night terrors and fearing abduction, which the report described as “significant harm.”

🚨 BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood offers Nigel Farage a meeting with the Home Office to discuss security measures for him and "those in public life"