Hundreds of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who were placed in British government-run asylum hotels have vanished into thin air with authorities clueless of their whereabouts.

Thousands of Afghans who worked with British forces in Afghanistan for 20 years remain stranded in Pakistan and are being evicted from homes in the UK.

British refugee charities have accused the Home Office of attempting to deport unaccompanied 16-year-olds to Rwanda in the first wave of asylum seekers to be sent to east Africa.

Unjust laws that deliberately target people from minority ethnic backgrounds are to blame for the Windrush scandal, which saw hundreds wrongly detained, denied legal rights and, in some cases, deported from the UK.

British protesters have rallied in Westminster to protest against the Nationality and Borders Bill, calling for the “racist” legislation to be scrapped.

London was the next stop on the whistle-stop tour of Europe by Iran’s senior negotiator at the P4+1 talks due to resume in Vienna at the end of November.

Campaigners want the British government to stop a planned deportation charter flight to Jamaica, not to push through new anti-immigrant legislation.