A campaign group in North Yorkshire has claimed that Home Office plans to place more than 1,200 asylum seekers at the former RAF base at Linton-on-Ouse could cost taxpayers upwards of £500 a night for every migrant, drawing on published figures for the abandoned Scampton scheme to argue that the project would represent extraordinarily poor value for money.
Vicky Richter · 20 August 2026Home Office guidance tells asylum seekers that rape, domestic abuse, child abuse, forced marriage and female genital mutilation are criminal offences in Britain. Great British PAC asks why taxpayers must fund leaflets explaining that British women and children must not be abused.
Vicky Richter · 20 August 2026Pakistan has threatened to stop accepting illegal migrants returned from Britain after the UK pressed Islamabad to take back Shabir Ahmed, the convicted ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang. Senior officials in Islamabad warned that forcing the case upon Pakistan could undermine "gold standard" cooperation on returns, intelligence sharing, and security, as ministers move to change a 55 year old law blocking his deportation.
Vicky Richter · 18 August 2026Andy Burnham wants leafy, middle-class England to "play its part" by housing asylum seekers. The Great British PAC says no. With Channel crossings at their second-highest level on record, a refused-asylum backlog swollen by 72 per cent, and the Prime Minister refusing to commit to stopping the boats, this is not a policy, it is a redistribution of failure, and it will blow up in his face.
Vicky Richter · 14 August 2026On a stretch of scrubland outside Dunkirk, a glossy leaflet in sixteen languages is teaching migrants how to time a small-boat crossing of the English Channel and how to claim asylum in Britain. Retrieved this week by Reform UK's Lee Anderson, the pamphlet has thrown a spotlight on the humanitarian architecture, and the £662 million of British money, that surrounds Europe's most contested border.
Vicky Richter · 7 August 2026More than 230,000 non-EU foreign households across Britain face eviction from council and housing association properties under sweeping Conservative proposals unveiled by Kemi Badenoch. The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Helen Whately, framed the plan as a decisive break with a welfare settlement that has turned the United Kingdom, in Mrs Badenoch's words, into a "cash machine for the world".
Vicky Richter · 7 August 2026Non-UK rough sleepers in England have risen 92 per cent since 2021, while non-EU nationals sleeping on the streets have surged 396 per cent. With £4.7 billion a year spent on asylum accommodation and 1.33 million households on social housing waiting lists, Prime Minister Andy Burnham's £340 million pledge faces uncomfortable arithmetic.
Vicky Richter · 4 August 2026Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has publicly pressed Prime Minister Andy Burnham to shield foreign care workers from Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's plan to triple the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain, reopening a fierce debate over vetting, English-language standards and Britain's structural dependence on imported care labour.
Vicky Richter · 31 July 2026There is a particular kind of silence in British public life. It is the silence that falls whenever the conversation turns to who, in practice, actually runs the country's migration policy. Ministers speak. Home Secretaries make speeches. And yet the boats keep arriving, the hotels keep filling, and the backlog keeps growing. This is the story of the machine behind the silence, a £4.9 billion ecosystem of charities, philanthropic foundations, sanctuary schemes and government grants that has quietly rewritten Britain's border settlement, and the one question Westminster refuses to answer, who is it actually for?
Vicky Richter · 31 July 2026A London-based charity under investigation over alleged links to the Iranian regime has retained its Home Office licence to sponsor UK visas, raising serious questions about Britain's immigration security. An investigation reveals how organisations facing regulatory scrutiny have been granted access to the UK's visa system, prompting growing calls for an urgent review of Home Office oversight and national security safeguards.
Vicky Richter · 28 July 2026The Great British PAC proposes making every visa applicant buy private Good Behaviour Insurance — letting underwriters, not Whitehall, price the risk of overstaying, fraud and crime.
Andrew Hunt · 4 August 2025When Kemi Badenoch warned that Labour's migration failures could leave taxpayers facing a £200 billion bill, the figures had a familiar ring. They grew directly out of our campaign.
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