Refugees should be able to work in the UK while they claim asylum, say 81% of British public

As the Nationality and Borders Bill returns to the Commons this week for MPs to consider the amendments voted in the House Lords, an article on inews reported a YouGov survey indicating that 81% of the British public would support giving asylum seekers the right to work, regardless of who they voted for at the last election. RAMP Principal and Conservative Peer, Baroness Philippa Stroud, who tabled the amendment in the Lords, is quoted in the article arguing that giving asylum seekers the right to work while they wait for a decision is not only “not only compassionate, it is common sense” given the good performance of the UK economy post-COVID 19, which has in turn produced a number of labour shortages.

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