How cruelty cost the government defeat over £3 a week for asylum seekers

This latest legal loss is especially embarrassing, as Tom Peck explains

Cruelty is a deliberate and significant part of the government’s asylum policy (AP)

The government has again been defeated in court over its asylum policy. This time, home secretary Suella Braverman has been found to have acted unlawfully by withholding payments of £3 a week towards healthy food for pregnant women and toddlers kept in asylum hotels.

How did this end up in court?

A small number of asylum seekers being kept in hotels brought legal action, claiming they were entitled to small payments of £3 a week for healthy food – either for their young children or for themselves, if they were pregnant – which they had not received. Their claim has been upheld.