Asylum seekers allowance is to be cut to a tiny amount.
Now thousands of asylum seekers forced to live in hotels, until their claims are being processed, will have their allowance cut to just £1.25 a day.
Support payments for those in hotel accommodation will be cut from £9.58 a week to £8.86 a week in the new year, reports The Guardian.
Sunak
Rishi Sunak says illegal migrants will overwhelm Britain unless global refugee laws change as he meets Italy PM Giorgia Meloni in Rome.
The PM said: “‘If we do not tackle this problem, the numbers will only grow. It will overwhelm our countries and our capacity to help those who actually need our help the most.
‘If that requires us to update our laws and lead an international conversation to amend the post-war frameworks around asylum, then we must do that.
‘Because if we don’t fix this problem now, the boats will keep coming and more lives will be lost at sea.’
Bibby Stockholm
Also, the Bibby Stockholm asylum seeker who died in suspected suicide has been named
Albanian national Leonard Farruku appeared to be in distress before he died, said other people on the boat.
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