Joe Turner

Joe Turner is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of York.

Exclusive: Government hands private firms £3bn in bid to ‘stop the boats’

Research reveals the business of Channel security is booming, as companies profit off asylum seekers’ desperation

By Lucy Mayblin, Joe Turner, Thom Davies, Arshad Isakjee and Tesfalem Yemane

/ 30 Apr 2025

Exclusive: Government hands private firms £3bn in bid to ‘stop the boats’

International family life after Brexit: further sanctions on intimacy?

The British government will likely claim greater control over the intimate lives of resident EU citizens post-Brexit, a control it already exerts over its own citizens.

By Joe Turner

/ 26 Apr 2017