How can Government justify cutting Universal Credit by £1000, asks Labour MP
“Members of this House are against it, members of faith in our country are against it, leading charities are against it and now Marcus Rashford is campaigning against.”
“Members of this House are against it, members of faith in our country are against it, leading charities are against it and now Marcus Rashford is campaigning against.”
Government bailouts may keep the lights on, but how cash was distributed - and who received it - has sparked criticism that ministers are either ignorant or apathetic about the industry they supposedly want to save.
Boris Johnson’s Government was compared to a school teacher losing control of the class.
Despite well publicised problems at HMP Birmingham, Medway secure training centre & Brook House immigration centre - and a late legal challenge from rival bidder MTC - G4S has won the huge contract.
Lord Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child on the Kindertransport, spearheaded demands for changes.
A bombshell report in the Financial Times said that Patel wanted to build the centre on Ascension Island, a British overseas territory, to house migrants coming to Britain.
"Christmas is cancelled - exactly as Boris Johnson said it wouldn’t be. He has presided over failure and is to a very large extent responsible for it."
The UK is home to just 1 per cent of the world’s refugees, so we need to have a sense of proportion about this.
“The question remains, why are mothers and babies being left to go hungry in this city, why is it being left to charities and volunteers to pick up the pieces?"
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