15 – 30 April 2025 Home secretary Yvette Cooper’s shameless decision, in the run-up to the May local elections, to publish statistics on the nationalities of foreign offenders and their crimes, and her amendment to the Borders Security Bill to bar all foreign nationals on the sex offenders’ register from making asylum claims, haven’t gained
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below which also includes information on the influence of the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally. 17 April: Centre-left parties in Italy file a complaint with the communications watchdog
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 4 April: Libyan authorities, funded by the EU and Italy to prevent migrants embarking for Europe, accuse aid groups including MSF, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the UNHCR, of seeking to change the country’s ethnic makeup by encouraging sub-Saharan African migrants to settle there, which the internal security spokesman says is
18 March – 1 April 2025 Last week, as highlighted in our calendar of racism and resistance, the government announced plans to cut at least £5 billion from disability benefits. Under such plans, over 370,000 people will lose their Personal Independence Payments (PIP), 3.2 million households will be worse off, 150,000 people will lose access to
ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below which also includes information on the influence of the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally. 19 March: As research shows 13 percent of young men aged between
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below which also includes information on the influence of the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally. 7 March: As France, the Netherlands and Switzerland cut foreign aid budgets
18 February – 4 March 2025 As Starmer increases spending on defence, asylum seekers have once again emerged as pawns in a spending review that will ultimately pit asylum seekers against the poorest in the Global South. On 25 February, as our calendar of racism and resistance records, the overseas aid budget was slashed by almost half to 0.3
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below. 21 February: France’s National Rally leader Jordan Barella cancels his scheduled speech at the US Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland just hours after Trump’s former aide Steve Bannon gave a
4 – 18 February 2025 It is sadly ironic that, as we record the experiences of Professor Insa Koch and her young children of the hyper-securitisation of a society which she feels indicates a growing fascism in Germany, and as this week’s calendar reveals, the leader of the Tories, at an international hard-right gathering, echoes tropes about ‘some cultures being
ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY 4 February: 89 Labour MPs establish a pressure group advising the prime minister to take tougher action on immigration and to increase publicity on deportations and other actions to tackle migration, as concerns over losing votes to Reform deepen. (Guardian, 4 February 2025) 6 February: After conservative attempts to form
