By Ian Quinn2021-01-27T11:38:00+00:00
Mcllwee was a key player at Tesco under former boss Philip Clarke
Former Tesco chief financial officer Laurie McIlwee is returning to grocery after becoming a special adviser for global technology investor Court Cavendish.
Under the move Mcllwee, who was a key player at Tesco under former boss Philip Clarke, will become chairman of Court Cavendish-backed Red Rickshaw, the UK’s largest online Asian grocer and world food recipe box provider.
Court Cavendish, whose investments include AirBnb, online GP consultation service DocTime and mobile game creator Gaming Realms, said it was looking for experts to “supercharge” its activities in special advisory roles, with McIlwee, who spent 14 years at Tesco including as CFO, fitting the bill.
Benjamin Morgan, who runs the EU homeless rights project at the Public Interest Law Centre, said: “It is clear from our casework that some of the most vulnerable EU citizens are yet to resolve their status. Barriers to application and delays in Home Office decision-making remain significant factors.
“This mixed messaging around settled status on the one hand and voluntary returns on the other, seriously undermines the government’s claim that the rights of vulnerable Europeans will be protected after Brexit.”
A Home Office spokesperson said: “Some people may choose not to obtain status under EUSS and may not wish to remain in the UK after the deadline. That is why we have written to stakeholders to inform them that EEA nationals who wish to leave the UK may now be eligible for support to help them do so under the voluntary returns scheme.”
The Home Office has been accused of “callousness” and “inhumanity” after blaming asylum seekers for the spread of the coronavirus in a military camp where hundreds are being held, with dozens to a dormitory. Residents have been banned from leaving Napier Barracks, in Kent, since Saturday after a number of individuals tested positive for Covid-19. They were told they were “not to leave the site under any circumstance” and that if they did they.
NHS worker stuck in Kenya as settled status documents are rejected Diane Taylor
An NHS worker has been left stranded in Kenya because she has been told that new EU settled status documents issued to her by the Home Office are not valid for travel.
Doreen Kathambi, 36, lives in Glasgow with her fiance, Iain Dunsmore. She works as a dietetic assistant at the Royal Alexandra hospital in Paisley.
She had to travel to Kenya last month for her father’s funeral and informed her employers she would be back in the UK by Monday 18 January.
She obtained her EUSS documents from the Home Office last month to enable her to attend the funeral.
NEW rules that deny asylum to refugees who’ve passed through a “safe” country are “unworkable” and risk plunging the asylum system into “chaos.”
Under changes to the immigration rules, which came into effect on January 1, any person who has travelled through or has a connection with a safe third country could have their asylum case declared inadmissible.
The changes allow the government to remove asylum-seekers not only to countries they have passed through but also any state willing to accept them.
However, lawyers and refugee rights groups interviewed by the Morning Star claim the rules are “unworkable” in practice, and will only add further delays to the asylum system.