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LAWYERS representing migrants have been physically and verbally attacked after the government described them as “activists” seeking to disrupt the deportation system, MPs said today.
A video posted by the Home Office on social media in August said that the asylum system was “open to abuse” and was allowing legal representatives to “delay and disrupt returns” of people.
The Law Society has said it was “misleading and dangerous,” and Home Office permanent secretary Matthew Rycroft has said it “should not have been used on an official government channel.”
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Court of Appeal rules key anti-protest legislation was forced through unlawfully
Government accused of scapegoating ethnic minorities after Home Office reveals plan to publish the nationalities of foreign criminals