Search results for ‘asylum’
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Thousands more riot police ready for further far-right gatherings
Is a terrible week about to get worse? Police monitor thirty more locations for potential unrest tomorrow as immigration lawyers fear that they are now being targeted.
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Living in fear ‘isn’t the way to be living’, says Zarah Sultana MP on UK riots
We spoke to Independent MP for Coventry South, Zarah Sultana.
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‘This is not protests… this is picking on a community that people think are defenceless’: Labour MP on violent disorder
We spoke to Suresh Grover, who is director of the anti-racist charity the Monitoring Group, Paulette Hamilton is the Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington, and Gulwali Passarlay, who came to the UK having fled Afghanistan and now campaigns for refugees’ rights.
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‘Thuggery, violence, disorder, vandalism unleashed under banner of protest’ – John Healey
We spoke to Defence Secretary John Healey in Rotherham, outside a hotel housing asylum seekers that was attacked.
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UK immigration: what’s Labour’s alternative to scrapped Rwanda policy?
One of the Labour governments first decisions was to declare the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda ‘dead and buried’.
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Keir Starmer is signalling he is ready for ‘serious business’, says Labour MP
If Labour’s top tier are getting down to work, what about the newly elected MPs?
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FactCheck: three promises Rishi Sunak has broken
From Rwanda flights to no-fault evictions.
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Is Labour’s immigration plan really different from the Conservatives’?
Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused the Conservatives of total failure over their immigration numbers policy saying they couldn’t clear up their own chaos.
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FactCheck: the Conservatives’ and Labour’s records on legal migration
Net migration is down 10 per cent – but still near a record high.
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Election 2024: Drenched Rishi Sunak calls for vote in July
Rishi Sunak stood in the pouring rain outside No. 10 Downing Street, and taking everyone by surprise, called a summer general election for July 4th.
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FactCheck: ministers claim Rwanda policy will deter people from crossing the Channel
The Home Office admits the deterrent effect is “uncertain”.
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Meet the people the UK wants to send to Rwanda
These are some of the people the government wants to deport to Rwanda. Rishi Sunak says the first flights taking asylum seekers on a one-way flight to Rwanda will take off in 10 to 12 weeks. The government claims the scheme will act as a deterrent to asylum seekers arriving on small boats.
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Sunak promises Rwanda deportation flights in July
Rishi Sunak has said he is determined to get his Bill to deport cross-channel asylum seekers to Rwanda through parliament tonight – even if it means MPs and Lords sitting late into the early hours The Bill cannot become law until both Houses agree – and the government says that means opposition Lords must give…
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LGBTQ+ Uganda sculptor Leilah Babirye on art as activism
Sculptor Leilah Babirye began her art as a form of activism back home in Uganda, where being gay is a crime.
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Will immigration determine the election and Sunak’s future?
In the Political Fourcast, Lord Jo Johnson and MP Margaret Hodge join Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Gary Gibbon to discuss planes and plots as Rishi Sunak tries to get asylum-seeker flights in the air.