This week, faith leaders and more than 200 charities pushed new Prime Minister Andy Burnham for a fresh start on asylum policy, a Home Office asylum refusal built on what a judge suspects was “AI hallucinated” evidence exposed cracks in the system's own evidence base, and the Refugee Convention's 75th anniversary landed alongside protest, spectacle and a handful of quietly hopeful human stories. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.

This week, Andy Burnham's first days as prime minister exposed the gap between opposition rhetoric and governing reality on asylum, an FOI investigation revealed serious safety failures inside the accommodation system even as protest focused on where sites are located, and family reunion policy failures echoed across Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.

This week, Andy Burnham's first major act as prime minister-in-waiting was to back Shabana Mahmood's Immigration and Asylum Bill through its second reading, a High Court ruling on trafficking protections was quietly set aside, and opposition to military-site asylum accommodation hardened from Oxfordshire to North Yorkshire. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.