‘The government cannot stand by and allow the rising cost of living to knock people off their feet,’ says the JRF, amid demands for the chancellor to hand out cash payments to help struggling families.
The scale of the Government’s defeat in the Lords over amendments to the Police and Crime Bill is important.
As the cost-of-living crisis deepens with millions at risk of being plunged into fuel poverty, research shows a stark racial divide between children growing up in poverty.
The home secretary’s proposed method to verify the age of asylum seekers is blasted as ‘flawed, dangerous and unethical’
One of the most harrowing images of 2021 has to be that of a damaged inflatable dinghy that had been carrying refugees, washed up on a beach near Wimereux, France. The incident sparked a wave of dissent about the government’s tough immigration policies.
‘If we do not act now, then we will have turned our backs on the poorest people on Earth and the whole world will suffer the consequences.’
The UK government should take responsibility for addressing the raging income inequalities and the broken benefits system which have pushed so many into poverty.
The humiliating disinvitation of Britain’s presence at such an important inter-ministerial meeting draws even greater reproach of the UK’s tough immigration approach.
“The government has repeatedly prioritised, cruel, unworkable and dangerous border measures like pushbacks in the Channel, which will only lead to more deaths,” says Minnie Rahman of JCWI.
As activists took to the streets of Glasgow demanding justice for migrants, a record number of people crossed the English Channel by boat.
