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A person holds up a sign during a solidarity event outside Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent, in support of asylum seekers housed at the former barracks
ASYLUM-SEEKERS are being deliberately driven into deeper poverty by the Home Office, unable to afford essential goods such as baby formula milk, food and period products, a new report states.
Research by charity Refugee Action has revealed that the financial situation of asylum-seekers in Britain deteriorated from “miserable” in 2008 to “impossible” in 2022 because of ministers “making a deliberate political decision to punish people seeking asylum” and to “deter refugees.”
It said a combination of “flatlining” benefits, soaring prices and government refusal to allow asylum-seekers to work had reduced the real value of their income by 19 per cent since 2008 – and that since then double-digit inflation and soaring prices had made their situation worse.
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
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
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
DIANE ABBOTT explodes the anti-migrant myths perpetrated by cynical politicians and an irresponsible mass media