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Immigration

Great British PAC Questions Labour's £150m Asylum Accommodation Plan as Communities Demand Answers

The Treasury has found £150m to build more large-scale asylum accommodation, but has not said how many sites, where they will be or what they will cost to run. In Piddington, Barnham and Linton-on-Ouse, residents have already discovered what that uncertainty means in practice. Chris Philp says the money proves Labour has "no intention whatsoever" of removing illegal immigrants. The published evidence suggests something more awkward: the government may be buying a costlier version of the system it promised to end.

Vicky Richter · 29 October 2026

Opinion

Great British PAC Challenges Labour's Brexit Contradiction as Healey's Budget Relies on Powers Burnham Would Revisit

The Chancellor built his first Budget around economic powers that Britain now exercises outside the European Union. His Prime Minister spent Monday explaining why he wants to go back in. Labour is using the machinery of Brexit while preparing the argument for its reversal, and neither the tariff cuts nor the tax rises survive much scrutiny.

Vicky Richter · 28 October 2026

Policy

Great British PAC Challenges Burnham's First 100 Days as Brexit Debate Returns

He came to office promising to fix the small irritations of daily life. On his hundredth day, Andy Burnham has reopened the largest constitutional question in British politics, and Downing Street cannot say what he meant. The Budget he receives today will not settle it.

Vicky Richter · 28 October 2026

Opinion

Great British PAC Questions Labour's £45 Energy Bill Saving as Households Face Forecast £276 January Rise

John Healey is presenting the abolition of gas standing charges as relief for 23 million homes. Around four in ten households may pay more, the saving will not arrive until 2027, and Cornwall Insight forecasts the price cap will rise £276 in January. Against a queue of Labour tax rises stretching to 2029, a modest, delayed saving is a thin definition of breathing space.

Vicky Richter · 28 October 2026

Policy

Great British PAC Questions MoD Priorities as 53 Diversity-Linked Posts Carry Estimated £2.7m Annual Salary Bill

Fifty-three posts with diversity-related job titles, among them two RAF wing commanders and a Royal Navy commodore, carry an estimated £2.7 million salary bill at the Ministry of Defence. The figures, a keyword count whose interpretation the department disputes, land a day before John Healey's Budget and the Conservative ultimatum to fully fund 3 per cent of GDP for defence or resign.

Vicky Richter · 27 October 2026

Policy

Great British PAC Questions Labour's New Respect Orders as Two-Year Jail Penalty Already Existed

Police, councils, social landlords and transport bodies have been able to apply for Respect Orders since 26 October 2026, with town centre bans, curfews and treatment requirements available against adults who blight communities. Breach is a criminal offence and arrestable. The maximum prison sentence is not new, the courts are already behind, and the launch announcement identifies no dedicated funding for the treatment places the orders depend on.

Vicky Richter · 27 October 2026

Opinion

Great British PAC: Britain Is Told to Be Ready for War in 1,000 Days. Labour Still Will Not Date the Money

The Defence Secretary has told the country to prepare for a potential war by 2030. The Chancellor resigned from that same job in June because the Treasury would not commit to a date for 3 per cent of GDP. On Wednesday, John Healey must explain how the two positions can both be true.

Vicky Richter · 27 October 2026

Immigration

Great British PAC Challenges Burnham Over EU Free Movement Return Four Months After Makerfield Brexit Pledge

Four months after promising Makerfield he would not re-run Brexit, the Prime Minister wants an "honest discussion" about readmitting EU free movement, and his Housing Secretary says nothing is "off the table". The National Director of Great British PAC calls it "a calculated attempt to overturn a democratic decision through the back door".

Vicky Richter · 26 October 2026

Opinion

Great British PAC Challenges Labour Over Plans to Cut the National Insurance Refund Deadline

Workers would have two years less to recover overpaid National Insurance under an HMRC consultation that closed this month. It offers no proposed safeguard for claims already in time, no published estimate of who loses out, and no impact assessment. Ministers have made no decision yet, but the proposal is on the table.

Vicky Richter · 26 October 2026

Chagos

BREAKING: Chagos sovereignty Bill clears House of Lords hurdle despite Labour Government refusing to support protections for islanders

Lord Weir's British Sovereignty Protection (Chagos Islands) Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Lords without a division, despite the Labour Government refusing to support it.

GBPAC Agent · 23 October 2026

Opinion

Great British PAC Challenges Labour Over Quiet Launch of Emergency Preparedness Campaign

The Cabinet Office told households to keep three days of food, water and cash, then left the announcement to a website update. Great British PAC says sensible preparation matters, but a government asking families to ready themselves must show that it is ready too.

Vicky Richter · 23 October 2026

Opinion

Great British PAC Questions £7bn Asylum Housing Contract as Contractor Offers More Than Double Council Rent

The same flat, the same street, the same taxpayer. Southwark Council pays £1,790 a month to house a family in a three-bedroom property. Clearsprings Ready Homes reportedly offered the same landlord £4,500 a month, with bills, council tax and maintenance covered, to house asylum seekers there instead. The landlord turned it down rather than end his council agreement. Great British PAC says the case exposes a deeper problem: two publicly funded housing systems bidding against each other for the same limited stock, while the rates that govern the contest remain largely undisclosed.

Vicky Richter · 23 October 2026

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