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Supporters of Amnesty International, Oxfam Scotland and the Scottish Refugee Council in George Square in Glasgow to form a giant human chain to mark World Refugee Day, June 2017
AN SNP MP has launched a Bill in Westminster seeking to give asylum-seekers the right to work.
Glasgow West MP Carol Monaghan is looking to overturn a ban on those coming to Britain from working while they await a Home Office decision.
Those seeking asylum are currently only able to apply for the right to work after they have been waiting for a decision for over a year.
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY