Campaigners protest ‘inhumane’ Home Office policies and call for resignation of Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman at London fundraiser
Campaigners infiltrated a Conservative party fundraiser demanding to know what happened to asylum-seeking children who have gone missing from hotels,The 10 social justice activists from Green New Deal Rising, an organisation that campaigns for climate and social justice, posed as Tory loyalists to gain access to the event on Wednesday evening hosted by Hampstead and KilburnAs Jenrick began to speak three activists stood up.
But more activists popped up from the audience variously accusing him of acting inhumanely and failing victims of the Windrush scandal. One activist called on both the home secretary, Suella Braverman, and Jenrick to resign immediately. Harrison said: “‘What this government and the Home Office is doing is unacceptable and inhumane. As the child of someone who was forcibly deported due to the government’s hostile environment, I know first-hand how damaging these attitudes and policies are.
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