It didn't use to be normal to hit even 32°C It's now happened every year since 2010 It certainly wasn't normal to hit 35°C It happened in just 10 summers in the 20th Century It's happened 9 times in the first 26 years of the 21st Century 6/
Helen McCarthy
@1helenm.bsky.social
Research director at NatCen Social Research. Interested in migration, integration and citizenship.
Lords Juetice and Home Affairs Committee inquiry on Settlement, Citixenship & Integration Calls on government to rehink its settlement reforms - timelines > 10 years would damage intergration + make UK an outlier - retrospective application is "manifestly unfair".
In case you missed it: Earned settlement: retrospective change is wrong but prospective change is even worse | colinyeo
Earned settlement: retrospective change is wrong but prospective change is even worse - Free Movement
Applying the new earned settlement rules retrospectively to migrants already here is wrong. People came to the UK under a specific set of rules and made
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A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.
Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids. publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
A more personal substack post today about the first refugee I hosted through @refugeesathome.bsky.social . It's not something I talk about much but I felt I needed to write something in response to the increasingly hostile environment for refugees. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-path-t...
The path to citizenship the UK has choked off - to our detriment
A story of hope and anger and one man called B.
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