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UNACCOMPANIED child refugees continue to be let down by the government’s “deplorable’ reluctance to help them, according to a scathing Lords report.
The peers’ study, published today, warns that 10,000 children who fled troublespots to Europe are now missing because Britain and other EU member states have shirked their responsibility to them.
Its publication comes amid criticism for Prime Minister Theresa May over her decision to scrap the government’s “minister for Syrian refugees” in her first days in Downing Street.
Once again, our broad-based coalition outnumbered the anti-migrant protest in Faversham, but tackling the sentiment behind this wave of anger requires explaining the real reasons pushing millions into leaving their homelands, argues NICK WRIGHT
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
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
