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Asylum-seekers have been left in “unacceptably poor” housing by bungling private firms, campaigns and MPs said yesterday.
The public accounts committee slammed the Home Office for taking a “short-sightedly” hands-off approach after handing contracts to provide accommodation to 23,000 destitute asylum-seekers to G4S, Serco and Clearel in 2012.
MPs said that G4S and Serco had no experience of such work and weren’t up to the task.
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
DIANE ABBOTT explodes the anti-migrant myths perpetrated by cynical politicians and an irresponsible mass media
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT