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Refugees left sleeping around train stations to meet Sunak’s backlog pledge

One man was given just two hours to leave his accommodation after learning his asylum application had been granted

Refugees left sleeping around train stations to meet Sunak’s backlog pledge
Refugee homelessness tripled after a Home Office policy change. | Steve Taylor, Getty Images
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The Home Office turfed a refugee out onto the street with two hours’ notice, leaving him to sleep in Paddington station for a week while surviving on coffee and biscuits.

Another man who had been granted asylum had to sleep rough outside another train station having fled Iraq because of the risk of homophobic violence.

Saeed and Samir were among refugees abandoned on Britain’s streets as the government tried desperately to fulfil Rishi Sunak’s pledge to clear the asylum backlog, openDemocracy has learnt.