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'Compassionate' Glasgow still welcomes asylum seekers following stabbing tragedy, says council leader Susan Aitken

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asylum seekers, the local authority leader has said.Susan Aitken told the Record she was "as confident as I can be" the majority of Glaswegians still wanted to help refugees who were fleeing persecution in their home countries, following the stabbing incident that shocked the city.Council bosses are now pushing the Home Office in London - which controls the UK's immigration system - to make changes to the contract tendering process which sees private firms given responsibility for looking after asylum seekers.Glasgow has been a designated "dispersal city" for more than two decades, which means those seeking in asylum in the UK can be accommodated there under strict Home Office rules while their request is being processed.But that position.

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