RISHI SUNAK must scrap migrant welfare curbs in the upcoming Budget or risk driving an unprecedented number of families into destitution, campaigners warned today.
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and the Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation (IRMO) urged the Chancellor today to drop the “no recourse to public funds” (NRPF) rule, which excludes an estimated 1.4 million people from accessing state support.
The call comes as the JCWI published new research suggesting that one in four migrants have lost their job during the pandemic.
Of those who became unemployed, 75 per cent are affected by the NRPF rule, which prevents them accessing most social security benefits and social housing.
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A FORMER Conservative councillor has admitted an “upskirting” attempt in a high-street fashion store.
Lee Hawthorne, 41, who resigned from Gloucester City Council last April, pleaded guilty to the charge of attempted voyeurism during a brief hearing at Bristol Crown Court today.
It relates to an incident at TK Maxx in Northgate Street, Gloucester, on June 27 2019.
According to the charge, Mr Hawthorne attempted to operate a mobile phone beneath another person to observe their genitals, buttocks or underwear, without their consent, “for the purposes of obtaining sexual gratification.”
He was arrested in July 2019 following a police appeal and was suspended from the Conservative group on the council, but continued to sit as an independent until his resignation last year.
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