Data from the Office for National Statistics shows that net migration hit a record 606,000 people in 2022. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
The Government funds a migration advocacy group that believes UK borders are 'systemically racist', The Telegraph may reveal.
Charity Commission records show that the Paul Hamlin Foundation (PHF), a left-wing charity, has received £1.36m in government grants since 2020.
At the time, the foundation provided grants to campaign groups such as as «Hope Not Hate», which argued that «government rhetoric on immigration is moving more and more in line with the far right's extreme anti-migrant views.»
Other groups that received the money include Stop Funding Hate, which led an unsuccessful 2021 advertiser boycott against GB News, and Detention Action, which is currently suing the Rwandan government's deportation plan.< /p>' A stain on our collective moral conscience'
PHF was founded in 1987 to support «general charitable causes», including literacy programs in Mexico and performances at the Royal Opera House.
Lord Hamlyn Edgeworth, its eponymous founder, made his fortune in book publishing. and after his death in 2001, donated most of his fortune to the foundation.
The endowment fund created by this gift remains the main source of funding for the projects that the foundation supports, and in 2022 its total amount is almost £900 million.
PHF is also supported by government grants, which it uses through its Act for Change fund.
The money is being used to support campaigns such as the Kent Refugee Action Network, which described the government's approach to refugees as «a stain on our collective moral conscience,» and the Phoenix Education Trust, which helps teachers and students focus on «anti-racist culture creation & decolonization at school.”
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Moira Sinclair, Chief Executive of PHF, is also the current Chair of the London Mayor's Cultural Council. Letitia Isibashi, Head of PHF Migration, has worked with Sadiq Khan and the Greater London Authority to provide better services to London's migrant communities.
PHF believes the current immigration system has its «roots in a colonial racial-hierarchical world view» , and is “increasingly militarized, systematically racist and discriminatory against women and other groups… [and] shaped by populist narratives.”
She accused Number 10 of «stirring up far-right anti-immigrant activity» through her new Illegal Migration Bill, which aims to ban small boats from crossing the English Channel.
Documents on the group's website also allege that the current the immigration system is not working because «the government's response to Black Lives Matter downplays [the] role of structural racism» in UK institutions and that there is «not enough diversity» in the media.
«Influencing policy or legislation»
Through his funding, he aims to create a «broader social justice movement» that can redefine UK border policy and «influence policy or legislation».
This includes financial support for academic work by a member of the Government's Advisory Committee for migration (MAC), a quango created by New Labor to provide the Home Office with «transparent, independent and evidence-based advice».
Madeleine Sumption, Director of Migration at the University of Oxford. The observatory has been a member of the committee since 2016.
Compas, its academic body, has received a 10-year grant from PHF and will receive at least £2 million by 2028.
G- Ms. Sumption is also a supporter of other PHF-funded projects, including Reunite Families UK, where she is an advisory board member.
Reunite Families UK is campaigning for visa facilitation for migrant family members and says migrants are «used as pawns in the government's increasingly hostile and overtly racist policies.»
Earlier this year, she spoke at a meeting hosted by Migrant Voice, which received £200,000 from PHF.
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The event was called «Best Deal for Migrants «, and its participants sought to «discuss tactics, messaging and how we can learn from other campaigns» to change the visa and immigration system.
Migrant Voice openly criticizes the government's illegal migration bill, saying it perpetuates «increasingly toxic and misleading rhetoric against migrants.»
A Home Office document seen by The Telegraph showed the impact the MAC has on policy making, with officials saying they «will be guided by the Advisory Committee on Migration … for any necessary changes» to the immigration system, which sought to bring the total down.
Sir John Hayes, chairman of the Common Sense Group of Conservative MPs, said: “The UK cannot afford to be run by unelected wangos like the MAC. It's time for the government to shut down this quango and save taxpayers a ton of cash.
«This will give ministers the ability to control our borders and reduce the number of people entering the country.»
Pauline Latham, a Conservative MP and a member of the House of Commons International Development Committee, said: “The government should fire MAC and release ministers to do what they think is best for the country and that we have been elected by the British public. for.”
2605 net migration
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that net migration hit a record 606,000 people in 2022. But last year MAC urged Downing Street not to focus on solving the problem of the number of people entering the country.
It says. in its annual report: «We would like to caution the government against focusing too closely on specific net migration figures, and any change in target must be consistent with the government's fiscal rules.»
The same report also calls on ministers to adopt a new rural visa program to encourage rural migration, stating: «The UK Government is interested in pilot testing and evaluating a rural visa targeting areas facing depopulation.»
B In 2021, the MAC called on ministers to «reconsider the ban on the employment of asylum seekers» who entered the country illegally, and stated that «there is clear evidence of the harm that this causes.»
And this despite concerns that that such a move would be an additional pull factor and would help the human smuggling business model.
A Department for Culture, Media & A spokesperson for Sport said: «The Charity Act allows charities to run campaigns that are in line with their charitable goals, provided they do so in a non-partisan, political manner.» outside their charitable purposes or act in a politically biased manner, the Charity Commission may conduct an impartial investigation and take regulatory action if necessary.”
The Home Office has been contacted for comment.
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