Here’s a reminder of the issues at stake:
A Home Office minister has urged that emergency rescue operations of drowning migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean “be stopped at the earliest possible opportunity” despite being told his approach amounted to “a barbaric abandonment of British values”.
Hope Not Hate has launched a petition protesting against the decision to withdraw funding from rescue services responding to sinking boats in the Mediterranean:
In the name of common decency and humanity, we would urge you to reconsider
