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Valeriia Starkova and her daughter Kamila, who fled their home in Kharkiv in the Ukraine with their family following the Russian invasion, at their new home in Caldecote near Cambridge
GOVERNMENT officials admitted today that they do not know the exact number of Ukrainian refugees left homeless after seeking safety here.
According to the latest official figures, 660 Ukrainian households have applied to local councils in England for help with homelessness, of which 480 are families with dependent children.
But MPs were told today that the government does not have figures on the total number of individuals these households represent.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum