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RAF Wethersfield in Essex. Braintree District Council has lost a High Court bid to prevent the government housing asylum seekers at Wethersfield Airfield in Essex, March 29, 2023
BRITAIN’S asylum system has been “left to crumble because the Tory government is more concerned with creating a cruel and expensive hostile environment than investing in a workable system,” campaigners charged today.
The damning intervention came after a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) audit identified significant systemic failings which are putting officials and refugees at risk.
Home Office staff are being forced to do “too much, too quickly and with inadequate training,” stressed the agency, which warned it had either seen or been told about “numerous risks to the welfare of asylum-seekers,” including trafficking cases being overlooked and victims of torture being detained.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
PCS members face dangerous working conditions in crumbling buildings while the Common Platform IT system obstructs rather than streamlines operations — and Labour’s promised wave of insourcing has not materialised, writes SHARON McLEAN
