HEARTLESS

Home Office job ad calls desperate people crossing Channel a ‘threat’

- PATRICK HILL

CHARITIES have blasted a Home Office job advert calling Channel migrants a threat.

It emerged hours after a desperate refugee family was pictured carrying a young child to safety on a British beach.

The description was published online in the same week a man in his 20s died making the perilous journey and two months after 27 people, including five women and a young girl, drowned trying to start a new life in Britain.

The attack on migrants is in a listing on jobs site LinkedIn for a new Home Office Head of Science and Technology. The role understood to offer a six-figure salary, involves finding ways to stop migrants crossing the Channel.