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Thursday briefing: UK may send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Government set to unveil new measures for refugee claimants … Johnson faces more Partygate fines … and Gibraltar’s trash mountain

The Guardian - AU · Apr 14, 2022

Rwanda to take asylum seekers from UK for processing under Government plans

Boris Johnson is set to argue that action is needed to combat the ‘vile people smugglers’ turning the ocean into a ‘watery graveyard’.

The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2022

5,000-plus migrants thought to have reached UK this year after crossing Channel

Crossings resumed this week, with large numbers of people arriving in Kent, after few tried the journey in the last week of March amid bad weather.

The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2022

Recruitment drive launched to fill first of 500 new Home Office jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

It is believed that around 100 positions are currently up for grabs within asylum and protection services

Birmingham Post · Apr 13, 2022

Awkward Partygate silence of Priti Patel - who told Brits to report lockdown breakers to police

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been fined by police investigating Downing Street parties but the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have both refused to resign

Daily Mirror · Apr 13, 2022

‘Diabolical’ UK visa scheme nearly forced family back to Ukraine

The Home Office issued an apology to Steve Dury and the Ukrainian refugees he is sponsoring, but Mr Dury said the process left them in tears.

The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2022

Stop matching lone female Ukraine refugees with single men, UK told

UN agency intervenes after claims predatory men using Homes for Ukraine scheme to target vulnerable

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2022

Sabina Nessa would have made more headlines if she was white, grieving sister claims

Jebina Yasmin Islam told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she didn't feel her sister's murder received enough press coverage and believed it was down to her ethnicity

Daily Mirror · Apr 11, 2022

Households to get £1,000 council tax discount for taking in Ukraine refugees

Those that claim a single occupancy discount, worth 25% off your council tax bill, will also be protected from losing this reduction if they take in a Ukraine refugee

Daily Mirror · Apr 11, 2022

Refugee visa system is not a shambles — Priti Patel is on the case, George Eustice says

Figures show only 12,000 refugees from Ukraine have arrived in the UK so far out of the 3.7 million who have fled since Russia’s invasion began

Evening Standard · Apr 11, 2022