How far-right rhetoric on migration went mainstream
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:07.6 | Today, what is fueling the rise in anti-migrant sentiment in the UK? |
| 0:16.9 | Today in Focus is supported by UK for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. |
| 0:23.6 | Do you ever think about how much suffering goes unreported? |
| 0:28.6 | And if you don't know, how can you ever choose to do something about it? |
| 0:33.6 | Right now, Sudan is experiencing one of the largest and fastest growing humanitarian crises in the world, but it's not dominating headlines. |
| 0:46.6 | Ongoing conflict and violence has forced millions of people to flee their homes, and over 25 million are in urgent need of help, |
| 0:57.0 | lacking food, water, medicine and shelter. |
| 1:01.0 | But there is something we can do. |
| 1:04.0 | UNHCR is the UN Refugee Agency and protects people fleeing conflict and persecution around the world. |
| 1:12.6 | It has teams on the ground right now in Sudan and in neighboring countries delivering |
| 1:19.6 | life-saving aid to families searching for safety. |
| 1:23.6 | They're providing thermal blankets, clean water and emergency shelter, and they need your help to keep delivering. |
| 1:33.3 | Your donation today could make a massive difference to someone who's been forced to flee their home in Sudan. |
| 1:41.2 | Search UNHCR Sudan appeal and donate |
| 1:45.0 | to help deliver vital, life-saving aid and protection to refugees and displaced people. |
| 1:53.0 | There was a story of a group of schoolchildren at a scout camp in Wales, who were racially |
| 2:08.5 | abused online, accused of being illegal migrants. |
| 2:12.0 | A Welsh police force is investigating after a scouts group received racist abuse after being |
| 2:17.4 | mistaken for migrants. |
| 2:18.3 | On August 6th, a bus travelling from Scotland carrying the scouts to Caffili was targeted by members of the public. |
| 2:24.3 | There was MP Rupert Lowe, mistaking a crew of charity rowers for migrants on a dinghy and furiously reporting them to the authorities. |
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