Brad Blitz looks at the storm of controversy over Gary Lineker's comments on the Illegal Migration Bill, and while he finds no evidence of Nazi policy, does hear echoes of fascist rhetoric
Immigration
‘Tories are not very good at chasing out asylum seekers, we’ll be better at it’ sums up hideous message – and not a peep about safe and legal routes so asylum seekers don’t have to risk lives in boats Keir Starmer’s Labour has been rightly slammed today for responding to the Tories’ racist scapegoating of […]
The Government may do just enough to rile up the Conservative Party’s voter base by engineering yet another pointless row with European bodies, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
Biden considers reinstating migrant detention.
Lauren Crosby Medlicott reports on Rishi Sunak's new law banning people entering the UK 'illegally' from claiming asylum or re-entering in the future
The new ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ is using the same dishonest tactics used to take Britain out of the EU to secure the Conservatives a fifth election victory, writes Adam Bienkov
The Prime Minister's law will stand in defiance of the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, writes Brian Latham
The UK is a signatory of the 1951 Refugee Convention, along with a number of other international instruments providing for humanitarian protection. The Convention provides that someone who is a refugee – a status that they have on the basis of their objective circumstances, having a well-founded fear of persecution on specific grounds and being […]
Sian Norris speaks to a family who will have been in the UK 33 years before they are granted indefinite leave to remain
The riot outside a hotel in Knowsley housing asylum seekers was the inevitable outcome of a long-standing organised campaign, Sian Norris reports