11 June 2026: Positive Action in Housing: Statement in response to the recent far right attacks

We condemn the shameful scenes in Glasgow on Tuesday night when people of colour were randomly, physically attacked by  gangs of masked  men dressed in black, meting out collective punishment and bringing racist pogroms to our streets.

Reform UK and Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain will not condemn these racist gangs, you can be sure.

Instead of focusing on the crime, they capitalise on those crimes committed by people of colour, immigrants or Muslims.  That’s their specialism – targeting racial minorities.

That is racism and it distracts ordinary people from seeing who is really draining the wealth of our society and destroying public services.

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5 June 2026: Public Accounts Committee: Missing asylum seekers and mounting backlogs show a system on the brink – PAC report

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is issuing a stark warning as it finds the asylum system is failing to cope in the face of severe pressure.

Read the report

Chair comment

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said:

“Our report provides an end-to-end snapshot of the entire asylum system, and its findings paint a disturbing picture – at the time of our inquiry, control of it had been all but lost.

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19 May 2026: Migrant Voice: The true cost of visas – our parliamentary report launch

Migrant Voice launches its new report today in parliament as part of our campaign to reduce extortionate visa costs and work for shorter settlement routes. Read the report here.

Starting with a short rally in Parliament Square from 3-4pm, we move to Parliament, Committee Room 6 for an event from 5-7pm, which will see a range of speakers sharing their experience of the visa system and Migrant Voice presenting the findings from our research.

The report, The True cost: the financial, social and mental health impacts of the UK visa and settlement system, shows how the cost of visas puts a strain on the lives of innumerable migrants and their families.

Drawing on survey data and focus groups with migrants on five- and ten-year routes to settlement, the findings indicate that the current system imposes excessive cumulative costs, prolonged insecurity and significant mental health strain.

Participants consistently described the system as structurally unfair. Visa fees were viewed as far exceeding administrative costs; repeated renewals create long-term financial pressure; and migrants remain subject to “No Recourse to Public Funds” (NRPF) despite paying taxes and National Insurance.

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This wooden crucifix is made with fragments of migrant boats gathered from nearby beaches 

2 April 2026: Quakers: Refugee family plans “will deepen suffering”

We are called to speak truth to power, and the truth is that separating families fleeing persecution is cruel and wrong.- Adwoa Burnley

Faith leaders from across the UK, including Quakers, have written to the Home Secretary warning against permanently restricting refugee family reunion.

The Christian, Jewish, Muslim and other faith leaders, alongside Adwoa Burnley, clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, urge Shabana Mahmood to demonstrate “the moral leadership that this moment demands.”

She should champion compassion, such as that shown to Ukrainians in 2022, rather than yield to the loudest calls against it, they say.

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