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The Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge at Portland Port in Dorset, August 6, 2023
TENS of thousands of asylum-seekers could be at risk of homelessness as the government fails to clear the system backlog by the end of 2023, the British Red Cross has warned.
The charity said its services have seen the number of people they support who have been granted refugee status but who have become destitute more than double since early summer.
It criticised changes it said the government has made to the time people are given to move out of asylum accommodation once they are given refugee status — the 28-day so-called “move-on” period.
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
