Labour told to come clean on asylum rape guide cost to taxpayers

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Labour has been told to tell GB News the truth about a Home Office pamphlet advising asylum seekers how not to rape women, after the department ignored a Freedom of Information request from the channel on costs, languages and how many copies were handed out.

The People’s Channel lodged the request on August 20, giving the Home Office until September 17 to reply. The nine-page guide, released the day before, spelled out that both people must agree to sex, that consent cannot be given if someone is asleep, drunk or unable to respond, and that whistling, kissing noises and sexual comments in the street are not acceptable. It also stated that women in the UK have equal rights to men.

GB News got an automated reply only on September 30. After the department was pressed for comment, its FOI team sent back a word-for-word copy of that first email. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the Home Office knows illegal immigrant men are a danger to women and girls, yet instead of deporting them it hands out leaflets begging them not to rape anyone, and is now hiding further detail from GB News and the public. He called it a cover-up and linked it to Labour fighting in the courts to keep migrant crime data secret.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has accelerated the removal of 11,733 foreign offenders since Labour took power in July 2024, ministers say. Georgia Gould told GB News anyone who breaks the law is not welcome and that deportation has been made easier. The Prime Minister defended the pamphlet as making UK law and norms explicit. Cases cited in the row include Hadush Kebatu, jailed then returned to Ethiopia, Mehmet Ogur given seven years, and Ibrahim Alshafe and Abdulla Ahmadi each given 21 years after a Brighton beach rape.

Residents in Piddington, facing plans for 1,256 migrants at MoD Bicester, asked why the leaflet was needed if there was no threat. Ameer Kotecha said simple questions after nearly two months unanswered show a failure of basic accountability. A Home Office spokesman said everyone must abide by UK laws or face refusal of asylum and removal, and that returns of failed asylum seekers are at their highest since 2010.