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A group of people, thought to be migrants, waiting on a Border Force rib to come ashore at Dover marina in Kent
HOME OFFICE plans to outsource asylum interviews to a private contractor were branded “dangerous” by refugee charities yesterday.
The government department said that it was considering handing over the interview and evidence-gathering process to a third party to cope with a growing number of asylum applications.
Firms in the running for the contract include G4S, Capita, Mitie, Sopra Steria and Serco, all privateers embroiled in a number of scandals over the handling of detention centres.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
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
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
