
Supporting refugees is expensive – here’s where the money goes
The government spent £3.5 billion dealing with refugees in the UK in 2022 – a threefold increase on 2021, and about 12 times the amount spent in 2015.
The government spent £3.5 billion dealing with refugees in the UK in 2022 – a threefold increase on 2021, and about 12 times the amount spent in 2015.
The Golden Boot may have gone too far even for the BBC with his criticism that the new migration bill is like “Germany in the 1930s.”
Rishi Sunak has launched a fierce defence of his Illegal Migration Bill, but the jury’s still out on whether his political gambit will pay off.
Sunak’s new legislation seeks to ban those entering Britain via illegal routes from making an asylum claim here. But it will almost certainly lead to multiple legal challenges.
Blackpool’s Metropole hotel has been home to roughly 300 asylum seekers for the past year. In the meantime, the town’s homeless are left to sleep on a concrete pillow in one of the many shop doorways, just a stone’s throw from the historic hotel.
Suella Braverman has one of the hardest jobs in government and deserves support, for it is in all sensible persons’ interests that she succeeds.
In an open letter to Suella Braverman, an independent strategy consultant applies some lateral thinking to solving the problem.
Braverman was seeking to defend her involvement in the turmoil at the Manston asylum processing centre in Kent.
Tory MP Sir Roger Gale has offered a scathing critique of how Braverman (and her predecessor) have managed the Manston asylum centre.
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