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by Bethany Rielly
THE Home Office’s decision to increase asylum support payments by just 3p a week has been branded “cold-hearted” and an “insult” by refugee rights groups.
Campaigners have made repeated calls for the measly payments, which leave asylum-seekers to survive on just £5.66 a day, to be increased so that they meet essential living costs.
But the Home Office announced this week that the £39.60 weekly payments will increase to just £39.63.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
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
