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Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street
REFUGEES will deliver petitions to Downing Street tomorrow urging Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ditch his party’s “cruel, unworkable and unlawful” Nationality and Borders Bill.
The four petitions, created by Freedom from Torture, Refugee Action, Refugee Council and One Strong Voice, have been signed by more than 100,000 people.
Asylum-seeker Mary Njoroge, who will be among those handing in the petitions, described the Bill as an attack on refugees and warned that it fails to address the problems they face in Britain, including poverty, racism and mental health issues.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE