Rishi Sunak and James Cleverly, the new home secretary, plan a fresh treaty with Rwanda and an emergency law to overturn the supreme court ruling that Rwanda is not a
The number of asylum seekers awaiting a Home Office decision on their claims has now risen to 175,457. This is the highest figure since records began in 2010. Over the
An Observer editorial has attacked the government’s treatment of refugees as “performative nastiness”. Criticising the immigration minister Robert Jenrick’s order to paint over murals at a detention centre for refugee
The House of Lords has successfully opposed a further seven measures in the Illegal Migration bill. Peers voted to limit the time children and pregnant women arriving by illegal means
24,083 asylum seekers were threatened with forcible removal to Rwanda between January 2021 and March 2023, according to Home Office data obtained through an FOI request. These “letters of intent”
The Court of Appeal has ruled that Rwanda is not a “safe place” to send asylum seekers. Two of the three judges have concluded that Rwanda’s practice of frequently returning
The House of Lords has voted in favour of four amendments to the Illegal Migration bill that would strengthen the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. Baroness Chakrabarti’s amendment
The government has dropped a two-tier system that made refugees arriving by irregular means, such as small boats, inadmissible for permanent asylum. The move is to speed up the processing
Robert Jenrick, the Immigration Minister, has disregarded the call for more safe routes for refugees by 1500 church leaders. In his response, (see link below), he doubles down on the
Dear [MP’s name] I am deeply concerned by the Home Secretary and Prime Minister’s plan to further dismantle the right to asylum in the UK with their ‘Illegal Migration Bill’.