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Mathilda Mallinson

Mathilda Mallinson is an immigration and human rights journalist.

What Suella Braverman’s refugee rhetoric tells us about the state of asylum – and the Tories

By demonising asylum seekers and forcing them into overcrowded facilities, she has curated an optic of chaos.

By Mathilda Mallinson

What Suella Braverman’s refugee rhetoric tells us about the state of asylum – and the Tories

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Britain has a world-losing refugee policy

Why have only 50 Ukrainian refugees been accepted when so many British people want to help?

By Mathilda Mallinson

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