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OVER 150 MPs and lords from across parties have signed a letter urging the government to cancel a planned mass deportation flight to Jamaica.
“At least 41 British children are now at risk of losing their fathers through this charter flight,” Nottingham East MP Nadia Whittome warned.
The letter, whose signatories include Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, was sent as it emerged that a man who has lived in Britain since he was 11 is set to be separated from his wife and baby daughter when deported on a charter flight to Jamaica tomorrow.
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
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
