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ASYLUM-SEEKERS have been left to struggle on just £5.39 a day during the lockdown despite government promises to give them “the funding they need and deserve,” campaigners charged today.
Refugee-rights groups have repeatedly called on the government to increase the £36.95 weekly allowance for asylum-seekers by £20, in line with universal credit.
Home Secretary Priti Patel said she would review the allowance in the light of the pandemic, while PM Boris Johnson pledged on March 25 that asylum-seekers would receive “the Home Office funding they need and deserve.”
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
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
