GOVERNMENT pledges to speed up deportations in light of the Reading terror attack will indirectly punish many other migrants, a prominent anti-racist campaigner told the Morning Star.
Ministers have renewed promises to make it easier to deport immigrants with criminal convictions after it emerged that the suspect of Saturday’s brutal attack in Reading is a Libyan refugee who has served time in jail.
Khairi Saadallah, 25, was arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of three people and the injuring of three others at around 7pm on Saturday in a Reading park. Police are treating the incident as a terror attack.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
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
Health leaders caution that flags put up by far-right activists are creating 'no-go zones' for NHS staff
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


