by Agency Reporter | Apr 22, 2022 | Briefing
FOLLOWING A COURT ORDER referring the extradition of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange back to the Home Office, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has launched a new petition calling on Home Secretary Priti Patel to reject Assange’s extradition to the United States. On...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 21, 2022 | Briefing
THE WAIT TO access the social security safety net for parents settling legally in the UK should be halved to five years to help the many children who currently grow up in deprivation with no UK Government support, MPs say in a new report. The report from the Work and...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 21, 2022 | Briefing
WHILST UK GOVERNMENT MINISTERS continue to say onshore wind is ‘unpopular’, the government’s own survey of the public finds eight in 10 people expressing support for the technology – over twice the number endorsing new nuclear. The Nuclear Free Local...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 20, 2022 | Briefing
FAITH LEADERS from across the UK have written to MPs ahead of today’s parliamentary vote on the Nationality and Borders Bill, urging them to use their influence to make changes to the Bill. The Nationality and Borders Bill is due to come before the House of Commons...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 20, 2022 | Briefing
ONLY TWO BANKS have disclosed any information through a flagship lending transparency scheme established in 2019 by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it has been revealed. The first loan...
by Staff Writer | Apr 19, 2022 | Briefing
THE ANGLICAN BISHOP of Chelmsford, the Rt Rev Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel about the Government’s proposals to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda. The Bishop writes that her own lived experience as an asylum seeker makes her...
