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Labour's planned foreign criminal ‘league tables’ branded ‘nothing more than dogwhistle politics’

Government accused of scapegoating ethnic minorities after Home Office reveals plan to publish the nationalities of foreign criminals

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper during a visit to Cambridgeshire Police Headquarters, Huntingdon, April 10,

LABOUR was accused of scapegoating ethnic minorities after the Home Office revealed it will publish the nationalities of foreign criminals for the first time today.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered officials to publish the data including the crimes that have been committed by the end of the year.

The move is expected to lead to “league tables” of foreign nationals showing which nationalities are more associated with particular crimes.

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