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Jonathan Ashworth MP speaking to the media as he arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in London
WORSENING anti-immigration rhetoric from Labour’s increasingly right-wing leadership is “silly and amoral,” a former aide to ex-leader Jeremy Corbyn stressed today.
Andrew Fisher, the party’s director of policy under Mr Corbyn between 2015 and 2019, criticised shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth after he urged firms to “invest in the workforce that they’ve got rather than going straight to international recruitment.”
The “overall tone counterposing British workers v migrant workers is wrong,” Mr Fisher told LBC Radio.
The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP