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Priti Patel
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Glasgow welcome: campaigners call for Scottish alternative to Patel’s ‘anti-refugee’ bill
Glasgow should restart the refugee dispersal scheme to stop the Home Office from introducing asylum reception centres in barracks and disused oil rigs, claim campaigners.
Claim by Nigel Farage about RNLI is False
Ferret Fact Service looked at a claim by Nigel Farage about the work of the RNLI.
Emails reveal Scottish ministers snubbed by Priti Patel over immigration raid
A series of urgent emails from the heart of the Scottish Government on the day of a Home Office immigration raid in Glasgow’s Pollokshields have laid bare growing tensions between the two administrations.
Poverty tsar calls for Home Office accountability over asylum support crisis
The chair of Scotland’s poverty and inequality commission has called for the Home Office to be held to account for leaving aslylum seekers without food or money.
Increase allowance for asylum seekers, charities tell UK government
A charity in Glasgow that counsels torture survivors is among 60 organisations urging the UK government to increase the asylum support allowance during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Priti Patel’s claim on number of EU citizens given settled status is False
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim made by Home Secretary Priti Patel about the number of EU citizens in the UK who have been given settled status.
Fact check: Immigration claims on BBC Question Time
Ferret Fact service looks at a number of claims about immigration and the health service made by an audience member appearing on the BBC's Question Time programme.
Hundreds of thousands Yemeni children face starvation
Harrowing images of starving children have revealed the horror of Yemen’s humanitarian crisis
