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Aleisha Omeike

@aleishao.bsky.social
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Trainee Researcher @ IPPR Big on all things progressive politics...and Irn Bru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧡

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amreenqureshi.bsky.social @amreenqureshi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
1/5 📢 Today we published a new @ippr.org report on how asylum and immigration policy shape homelessness in England. Homelessness is rarely caused by one factor alone. It often happens when housing, welfare, employment and immigration systems fail to work together. www.ippr.org/articles/clo...
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Closing the gaps: Immigration status and homelessness | IPPR
Immigration status has become one of the clearest fault lines running through England’s housing and homelessness system. Around a quarter of people rough s
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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Citizenship is a right, not a privilege. Our new briefing with @reprievehq.bsky.social reveals a shocking racial disparity in citizenship stripping practices. 3 in 5 people of colour are at risk of having their UK citizenship stripped, at the discretion of the Home Office 🧵👇
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Stripped: The Citizenship Divide
New research exposes racist reality of UK citizenship stripping laws that place 3 in 5 people of colour at risk.
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 28/11/2025
A step forward for millions of workers: @josephevans.bsky.social responds to unfair dismissal policy changes and calls for urgent action on the Employment Rights Bill. Read the full response here 👉 www.ippr.org/media-office...
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Want a wee break from all the budget bustle? Here’s something a bit different: my reflections on IPPR Scotland's 10th-anniversary conference - what’s changed, what hasn’t, and what Scotland needs next. #IPPRScotland #Scotland www.ippr.org/articles/a-r...
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A return north: reflections on IPPR Scotland’s tenth anniversary conference | IPPR
A year into living in London — dodging the Central line, being told I have a “lovely accent,” and trying not to roll my eyes too aggressively — I realise h
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Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz @josephinewy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
MIGRANTS ARE TAXPAYERS TOO GUYS. Making settlement harder to get is not the public money saving flex the Chancellor seems to think it is. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of the population. A tax on the top 1%'s wealth could raise at least £70 billion for our public services.
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amreenqureshi.bsky.social @amreenqureshi.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
4.45 million children in the UK live in poverty, and nearly 4 in 10 are in families where both parents were born abroad. My blog sets out why this must be recognised in the upcoming Child Poverty Strategy. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/yc8mp55p
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Making the Child Poverty Strategy work for migrant families | IPPR
At the time of writing, the UK government is preparing to launch a new national strategy to tackle child poverty. Weeks into being newly elected, prime min
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 19/11/2025
No one likes tax rises. But there is a way through the Budget that’s about choices: prioritising services, investment and lower bills over blunt cuts and short-term fixes. Read the latest from us here: www.ippr.org/articles/fai...
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 12/11/2025
💷 | NEW BLOG: A war on bills should be the government’s defining campaign – showing it’s on the side of consumers and tackling the cost of living from energy to food to housing. Read the latest from us here www.ippr.org/articles/a-war-on-bills
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marleymorris.bsky.social @marleymorris.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Important new report on the failures of the asylum accommodation system by Home Affairs Committee.
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Billions squandered on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement – Home Affairs Committee report finds - Committees - UK Parliament
Flawed contract design and incompetent delivery left the Home Office unable to cope with the surge in demand for asylum accommodation, a report by the Home Affairs Committee has found.
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Lucy Mort @lucyhbmort.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
…picking back up with some news from this week 👇 The Home Affairs Select Committee has just published its report on asylum accommodation – and I’m pleased to see many of IPPR’s recommendations reflected in it.
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 22/10/2025
The ten year route to settlement has already proven to be punishing for many. Listen to @amreenqureshi.bsky.social on BBC radio discussing the potential impact of increasing the default from five to ten years - on individuals, families and society.
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Mix Diversity @mixdiversity.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"We do not need anti-racism to be trendy. We need it to be unrelenting. Because history was never changed by those who stayed quiet when the noise died down." @aleishao.bsky.social on why this year's #BlackHistoryMonth theme could not be more urgent www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/sect...
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME! At uni, I couldn’t afford to "work for experience." I was too busy working at Nando’s because "peri-peri chicken" was the only thing keeping me financially afloat. 🍗💸 Talent isn’t limited to those who can afford to work for free. #UnpaidInternships #WorkingClassGrad
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
En route to Labour conference! As a Scot, I’ll be quietly benchmarking everyone’s small talk against Glasgow standards 🤪
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Wrapping up another wonderful week at @ippr.org! The selfie speaks for itself; a mix of excitement, curiosity and that “wow, is this actually happening” feeling. Being so close to Westminster is a daily reminder that there’s so much we can influence from the outside - and hopefully we will!
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
SHOCK, HORROR! 50% of columnists are privately educated. I’m not. But I know plenty of voices outside that bubble who deserve a column too - myself included 😅
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We can’t pander to racists and those who will strip away our rights. Together we will resist.
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Engender @engenderscot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Today Aberdeenshire Councillor @fatima-joji.bsky.social shares her experiences of being a woman in politics ⬇ Our report highlights the barriers & challenges women face & outlines actions needed to improve our political systems. Find out more: www.engender.org.uk/news/blog/en...
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Elitist Britain 2025 report is absolutely essential reading for the DfE! Tangible proof that privilege still calls the shots. The challenge now? Turning data into door-openers. Fund state schools, back first-gen talent (like moi), and judge people by potential, not postcode.
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Today’s chocolate bar is an ontological conundrum. Its substance diminished, its cost amplified, my despair compounded!
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I’m on a report reading rampage this evening!!! This IPPR North report confirms what I myself have lived through: for working-class kids particularly in the North, social mobility is a practically a myth. Until real investment reaches us, the ladder they talk about isn’t even there…
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State of the North 2025 - The kids aren't alright: How to deliver for young people in the North | IPPR
This is a pivotal moment for young people. The current generation of young people (Gen Z) has grown up in extremely challenging circumstances. Many are see
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
An absolute pleasure to attend the report launch where we heard from Zambia’s High Commissioner and Baroness Chapman. As the speakers and the report rightfully points out: the Global South doesn’t need hand-outs, it needs fair partnerships. Time the UK caught up!
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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Elon Musk calls for change of UK government at Tommy Robinson rally
Elon Musk spoke with Tommy Robinson via a video link to the thousands of people at Saturday’s ‘unite the kingdom’ rally
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Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It melts my head that X is still used for official Government communications, and, catching up on today's news and the fact we have a foreign billionaire inciting violence on our streets, it's clearer than ever that this should end. I raised this in Parliament last week 👇
Question from me: "I warmly welcome the Leader of the House to his new role and associate myself with the support across the House for my hon. Friend the Member for Washington and Gateshead South (Mrs Hodgson). Members have raised many times the unacceptable level of threats that we face. Increasingly, abuse and threats are being driven and whipped up by one platform in particular, X, previously known as Twitter, which has become a sewer of antisemitism, racism, misogyny and dangerous conspiracy theories. Its owner has specifically targeted Members of this House. With a new director of communications in No. 10 and a refreshed Front Bench, may we have a debate in Government time on whether it is appropriate for that platform to continue to be used for official Government communications?"Answer from Sir Alan Campbell, Leader of the House: "What my hon. Friend says about X is truly shocking. We are very much in favour of free speech, but we are also against incitement to violence. We have delivered the Online Safety Act 2025 to seek to strike the balance between user protection and freedom of speech. On the matter of the Government’s use of X, it is right that the public are kept up to date with information and a number of people still use X, although of course many are moving to other platforms. I am sure that the Government will take that into account in our deliberations in future, and we also keep our wider social media practices under review."
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Balancing Britain’s unrest with a balanced breakfast… Happy Sunday everybody 🍽️🥞
pancakes with lots of chocolate and yummy fresh fruit!
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Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Happy 4th anniversary to the time this happened on Twitter.
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Engender @engenderscot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
📢 Women across Scotland have been sharing their experiences with us in a national series of workshops discussing their rights & where they most need change.
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
More people than ever are clapping along to the far-right soundtrack. For me, it’s not a particularly compelling one…some of the loudest voices could use more vocal coaching… With all the noise, I was prompted to respond to a wonderful piece by Rohan Sathyamoorthy. Read below 👇 @theguardian.com
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Don’t clap along with the far right – fight them | Letter
Letter: Aleisha Omeike says we have to get organised to fight the racism and misogyny that is on the rise in Britain, in response to an article by Rohan Sathyamoorthy
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 10/09/2025
Calls to double the wait time for indefinite leave to remain - and to apply it retrospectively - risk breaking promises to people who arrived in good faith, paid fees & built their lives here. @marleymorris.bsky.social in @thetimes.com 🔗 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Marley Morris, head of immigration at the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank, said: “From next year, increasing numbers of people who arrived under the post-Brexit immigration system will become eligible for ILR. As the government prepares to consult on its plans for settlement and citizenship, it seems only fair that the new ten-year waiting period for settlement should only apply to new arrivals, rather than those already here. This reflects a core British principle that new policies should not apply retrospectively.”
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Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
HI BLUESKY! 👋 I have survived my first week as a trainee researcher at @ippr.org and let me tell you…it was glorious! I'm on here not only to share what I learn, to scream into the void about injustice and hopefully make a stir! Expect hot takes, loud thoughts and wild enthusiasm. Buckle up!
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