A new survey conducted in the middle of this month has found that the border between the UK and the EU is becoming significantly more clogged up. Well over half of UK businesses said that border delays have become longer since the beginning of...
A proposed policy which would allow force to be used by UK Border Force staff for fingerprinting asylum seekers at French ports has been criticised by both unions and charities. The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has been warned about the potentially...
It’s believed that the Brexit free trade deal forged between the UK and the EU is the first in history that sought to build barriers rather than take them down. So just how ‘free’ is the deal? Has the COVID crisis managed to simultaneously...
A lawyer representing activists who stopped a deportation flight leaving Stansted airport has urged the government to draw a line under the case. His comments came after members of the group known as the Stansted 15 had their conviction of...
There’s been a fifty percent rise in contacts to the NSPCC’s helpline over children living with domestic abuse since last April. More worried neighbours have reported hearing constant arguing and kids crying to the charity’s confidential helpline...
How do you make an asylum seeker in the UK feel even more scared, vulnerable and traumatised? Answer: Put them in a portacabin on a remote, bleak industrial estate right next to an Immigration Removal Centre. This is exactly what the Home...
Gay and lesbian asylum seekers in the UK may in the future face more obstacles related to their cases compared with other claimants. This is because of changes being made to immigration rules by the Home Office post-Brexit. ‘We are in uncharted...
A landmark ruling has seen a person granted refugee status on the basis of their non-binary gender identity for the first time. Equality activists have welcomed the judgement and hope it will make it easier for non-binary people to find a safe home...
A London charity which offered support to victims of the Grenfell Tower fire has been, and remains, institutionally racist. This is according to a report by the Tutu Foundation which provides mediation services and was commissioned to conduct a...
A new report has found that police stop and search targeted almost 68,000 people and vehicles in London in the three months from July to September 2020. It’s the first of a series of studies which analyses stop and search and has been published by...