<p>Department drops efforts to return Tony Hall to Barbados, a country he left at 12 and where he has no living relatives </p><p>The Home Office has lifted a deportation order handed to a 62-year-old man who has lived in Britain for 50 years after criticism of the department’s attempts to remove him to Barbados, a country he left as a child.</p><p>The Home Office wrote to Tony Hall on Tuesday to inform him that his deportation order had been revoked. His case had been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/19/tony-hall-has-lived-in-the-uk-for-50-years-why-is-the-home-office-trying-to-deport-him">highlighted in the Guardian</a> a day earlier.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/21/home-office-lifts-deportation-order-tony-hall-62-lived-uk-50-years">Continue reading...</a>