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| No UK rollout for 'go home' vans | |
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| Vans telling illegal immigrants to "go home" or face arrest will not be rolled out across the UK. | |
| A trial of the controversial vans in London is currently being evaluated by the Home Office. | |
| A government source has told BBC News the evidence shows the vans are "not very effective". | |
| It was not clear when the evidence would be published, added the government source, but "the vans will not be going ahead". | |
| The Home Office's pilot, which saw vans driving around parts of London for a week in July, drew criticism from across the political spectrum. | |
| Liberal Democrat Business Secretary Vince Cable described the campaign as "stupid", and Labour accused the government of aping language used by the far-right National Front in the 1970s. | |
| UKIP said the scheme was "disturbing" and reminiscent of a fascist dictatorship. | |
| The vans were also banned by the Advertising Standards Authority, which said the arrest statistics on them were misleading, although the watchdog cleared the campaign of being offensive and irresponsible. | |
| Home Office ministers insisted that the pilot had worked - and they were considering extending it to other parts of the country. | |
| According to the Daily Mail, Home Secretary Theresa May has decided not to extend their use, as only one person, a Pakistani man, was persuaded to leave the country as a result of seeing the signs. |