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The Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
CHARITIES have urged the Scottish government to set up a peer support network for asylum-seekers facing destitution.
The British Red Cross and the Refugee Survival Trust published a report today on preventing the most extreme poverty for those seeking asylum in Britain.
Asylum-seekers, the report said, often suffer the worst poverty in the first six months of their time in Britain due to language issues, delays to support and being moved repeatedly between accommodations.
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
