Asylum-seekers and other vulnerable migrants in the EU should have equal access to promising Covid-19 vaccines, the head of the UN’s migration agency told the European Parliament on Thursday. ‘It is for the sake of their safety and well-being of the entire host communities’ in the countries taking them in, said Antonio Vitorino, director general … Read more
‘Lefty lawyers’ who were blasted by Priti Patel search for asylum seekers to sue the Home Office in legal claim that could cost taxpayers millions Human rights lawyers are searching for asylum seekers to sue the Home Office The looming legal action is a blow to Priti Patel who lambasted ‘Lefty lawyers’ Law firm Leigh Day … Read more
Revealed: Asylum seekers’ taxi rides to hotels and detention centres are costing the taxpayer millions Asylum seekers are being driven in taxis from airports to hotels or interviews Clearsprings Ready Homes is awarded £1.1billion Home Office contract over 10 years The private company houses migrants in south of England and Wales It has paid one … Read more
More than 9,000 asylum seekers are living in 91 hotels across the country after a record year for Channel crossings, MPs have been told. Home Office officials told the Public Accounts Committee 9,500 people have been put up in almost a hundred hotels in around 50 local authority areas. And the department’s permanent secretary Matthew … Read more
Priti Patel ‘looked at sending asylum seekers thousands of miles from the UK to tiny volcanic islands in the South Atlantic while their cases were considered’ Ms Patel abandoned the plan after instructing officials to drill down into logistics St Helena island was also touted as a potential site for the processing facility Labour said … Read more
Home Secretary Priti Patel says she is ‘bitterly disappointed’ by High Court ruling grounding charter flight deporting asylum seekers to Spain Lawyers representing three men mounted challenge to halt the flight to Madrid Asylum seekers’ lawyers raised concerns passengers could be destitute in Spain The men, a Syrian and two from Yemen, had travelled to … Read more
Judge grounds flight due to deport asylum seekers from UK to Madrid after lawyers raise concerns they could end up destitute in Spain Lawyers are representing three men who arrived in Britain on small boats They said the men should not be flown out until more is known about facilities Lawyers representing Home Secretary Priti … Read more
Recruiters share the three things job seekers should NEVER do if they want to get a job – so are you guilty of any of them? Three recruiters have revealed the actions job seekers should never do These include lying, listing a bad reference and having an aggressive tone This set of actions can jeopardise … Read more
Home Office books 4,000 hotel rooms for asylum seekers amid pressure from cross-Channel migration and coronavirus The Home Office has booked 4,000 hotel rooms to house asylum seekers Hotels in Hull, Birmingham, Nottingham, Southport and Glasgow have been used It comes amid pressure from a surge of migration and the coronavirus pandemic By Henry Martin … Read more
Casually tapping on their smartphones and smoking in the sunshine, the young men gathered outside the once grand, but now slightly downmarket, hotel appeared carefree and relaxed. Their untroubled, if somewhat bored, demeanour is perhaps no surprise. Having successfully reached the UK as asylum seekers, they are now guests of the British taxpayer with free … Read more