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Tory MP Paul Scully resigns after warning of ‘no-go areas’ in London and Birmingham
4 March 24
Tory MP Paul Scully resigns after claiming that neighbourhoods in Tower Hamlets, London and Sparkbrook, Birmingham are ‘no go areas’ due to people ‘abusing’ their own religion.
Source: Independent
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Footballer Sam Kerr charged with racially aggravated harassment of London police officer
4 March 24
Chelsea and Australia footballer Sam Kerr is charged with racially aggravated harassment of a police officer and is set to stand trial next February following a police response to a complaint over a taxi fare in January last year.
Source: Guardian
Category: CULTURE | MEDIA | SPORT
Country: UK
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Foreign worker visas crackdown ‘under close review’, says Number 10
4 March 24
Downing Street says new rules restricting care workers’ rights to bring family members to the UK and requiring care providers to register with the Care Quality Commission, due to come into force on 11 March, are ‘under close review’ following fears that the CQC has never inspected some companies granted licences, which are just months old and have no history of providing care.
Source: Standard
Category: EMPLOYMENT | EXPLOITATION | INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Country: UK
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Worst-off find it harder than well-off to access NHS care, survey finds
4 March 24
A survey by Healthwatch England finds that access to NHS care is more difficult for poorer people, who also have worse experiences of NHS care compared to those who are more affluent.
Source: Guardian
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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They fled Ukraine to the Netherlands. Why are they being expelled?
4 March 24
Temporary residence permits for thousands of third country students and young workers who fled to the Netherlands following the Russian invasion of Ukraine expire and they are told they have 28 days to leave before deportation action is taken, after a High Court ruling in January that the policy permitting Ukrainian nationals and residents to stay no longer applies to non-Ukrainian nationals.
Source: Al Jazeera
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: Netherlands
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Scrap plans to scan accounts of benefit claimants or risk new scandal, MPs told
4 March 24
42 organisations write to the work and pensions secretary demanding the scrapping of the proposal for automated surveillance of millions of bank accounts of people who receive benefits, as well as people related to welfare claimants, as it risks a repeat of the Post Office Horizon scandal.
Source: Guardian
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Temporary accommodation could have contributed to the deaths of 55 children
4 March 24
As government figures show that a record 142,490 children were in temporary accommodation at the end of September 2023, the all-party parliamentary group on households in temporary accommodation warns that temporary accommodation may have contributed to the deaths of 55 children, mostly under a year old, between April 2019 and March 2023.
Source: Metro
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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‘Health emergency’: 15% of UK households went hungry last month, data shows
4 March 24
Midland Heart housing association chair Lord Ian Austin stands down with immediate effect following his remarks last month on social media about a ‘death cult of Islamist murderers and rapists’. Midland Heart says it has not accused Lord Austin of racism or Islamophobia.
Source: Housing Today
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Poorer pupils still further behind in maths post-pandemic
4 March 24
A report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) shows ‘the overall disadvantage gap’ between students on free school meals and others has grown in reading and maths at both primary and secondary school level, with the gap in reading attainment in primary school students now ‘almost two months wider than it was before the pandemic’. Report here.
Source: TES
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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UK and Libya agree on further co-operation to curb irregular migration
4 March 24
Minister for ‘illegal’ migration Michael Tomlinson holds talks in Tripoli with the Libyan prime minister on increasing cooperation and joint operations to reduce migration through Libya to Europe.
Source: National News
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Fears UK coastguards left children adrift on small boats before Channel tragedy
4 March 24
Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield demands a full investigation as coastguard logs for the days before the drowning of at least 27 people in November 2021, reveal that at least nine boats in distress containing children and babies were left to drift, with no search and rescue attempts made.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Plans to Bar Politicians from Meeting Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Climate Activists are “Dangerous and Authoritarian” Say MPs
3 March 24
The government’s independent adviser on political extremism proposes that MPs should be banned from working with some legal campaign groups, such as the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, on the grounds of their involvement in ‘disruptive demonstrations’, or demonstrations that allegedly ignore instances of racism.
Source: Byline Times
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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France’s far-right RN makes immigration pillar of Europe poll campaign
3 March 24
Kicking off its campaign for the June European parliament elections with a rally in Marseille, the far-right National Rally president Jordan Bardella says that the elections are a ‘referendum against being submerged by migrants’.
Source: Reuters
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: France
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ECR Party Delegation Tours Gaza Envelope in Solidarity with Israel, Led by Intelligence Minister
3 March 24
As part of a European Conservative and Reformists initiative, three far-right MPs from Brothers of Italy, Vox (Spain) and PiS (Poland) visit Israel to meet with the Israeli prime minister and Likud in a show of political support.
Source: BNN
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Italy
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EU to release funds for Palestinian aid organization UNRWA
3 March 24
Having suspended payments to UNRWA after Israel alleged that a dozen members were involved in the 7 October Hamas attack, the European Commission says it will resume funding.
Source: Deutsche Welle
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: EU
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