Aidan Rylatt

Nigel Farage and Reform UK would break what makes Britain strong When Nigel Farage stood up this week and outlined his so-called “plan” for immigration, he didn’t sound like a democrat. He sounded like Vladimir Putin. He called for uniformed officers to raid Britai...

South Norfolk's Labour MP Ben Goldsborough, who won his seat on a 19% swing, overturning a 21k Tory majority, has written a piece challenging Reform's approach to refugees, asylum and human rights as an issue of principle, not simply impracticality

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The Government’s immigration policies are increasing child poverty - British Politics and Policy at LSE The government has committed to tackling poverty among all children, including those subject to the UK’s asylum and immigration system. But recent reforms and proposals to immigration policy mean that...

Debates on migrants' access to benefits have focused on the costs to welfare spending but there are also costs - both fiscal & social - of continuing to exclude children in resident migrant families from social security protection >> @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social via blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Hundreds of thousands of Brit-born children with migrant parents face destitution The government's child poverty strategy is a step in the right direction but will do nothing for the migrant children living in poverty.

Nearly half of the children in the UK who have migrant parents are living in poverty – that’s an estimated 1.5 million children. For @bigissue.com I spoke with @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @oliviablakemp.bsky.social
about what can be done to fix it.

www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

An excellent overview of progress & ongoing challenges in relation to improving sickle cell care.

Great to see references to the three reports we worked on with @sicklecelluk.bsky.social (on secondary care services, specialist nursing support and London Ambulance Service respectively).

I got British citizenship via the five-year route. Labour’s new 10-year rule will cause untold pain | Nesrine Malik Starmer claims to want integration. Yet denying people safety, belonging and the right to vote for a decade amounts to the exact opposite, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Make sure to read this by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the clumsy curelty of the gov's ILR changes

"Every bad day at work becomes... a worry that your whole life in the UK may be over. Long-term sickness becomes not just a health calamity, but an existential one"
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Settlement and citizenship in Labour's white paper The proposals will make it harder, not easier, for migrants to integrate, with negative consequences for productivity, growth and the public purse

Finally managed to write something new for my Substack. It’s on the government’s immigration white paper and its likely unintended consequences. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

Praxis’ statement on the Immigration White Paper — Praxis This morning, the government published their long-awaited Immigration White Paper . In it, they announced plans to make it even harder for people living and working here to secure permanent settlemen...

"The 10-year route is not a pathway—it’s a punishment, forcing families into poverty and robbing people of their most productive years. Where we come from should not deny us the right to belong." Anna, Praxis campaigner

Read more from Anna in our full statement👇 www.praxis.org.uk/news/praxis-...

Migrants and refugee families in the UK denied childcare funding, report finds Immigration status is denying children equal access to early years education and pushing families ‘deeper into poverty’

Very proud to have led this research over the last year.

The impact of not having access to the same support with childcare costs as other families is devastating for both children and their parents.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Hidden hardships: The immigration system and child poverty | IPPR In 2022/23 it was estimated that 4.3 million children live in relative poverty, and this number has risen in recent years. Among those disproportionately i

⏰ | NEW REPORT: No child should grow up in hardship due to their parents’ immigration status, but nearly half of children in the UK with parents born abroad are living in poverty.

@amreenqureshi.bsky.social and @marleymorris.bsky.social explore the solutions 👇

YouTube video by Praxis, for Migrants and Refugees BREAKING: Migrant parents screen video message across Westminster

BREAKING: We screened a message from migrant parents across Westminster.

Hostile immigration rules enforced by this Govt. drive children into poverty.

🔊End child poverty, for EVERY child. Scrap No Recourse to Public Funds.

Make sure they know, we won’t let this go. Share now.
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Badenoch: claiming benefits should bar foreign workers from settling in UK Tory leader wants Labour immigration bill to include 10-year period before eligibility for state aid and granting of indefinite leave

There are already people who have come to contribute to our country who can’t claim benefits, even if they work in critical but low paid sectors like care.

We already have a 10 year route to settlement.

Both policies drive destitution. They are not a model.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Week one in Trumpland: The first step is seeing what’s in front of our faces We should resist the voices attempting to tell us it’s all fine

I wrote this about the media's first big test of Trump 2.0, and how poorly it scored. On the tedious, vital work of seeing what's in front of our faces for the next four years.

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