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Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer, sits with new Labour MP Natalie Elphicke, during a visit to Dover, Kent, May 10, 2024
REFUGEE groups accused Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer of doubling down on the Tories’ hateful rhetoric against asylum-seekers as he announced cruel plans to ramp up border security and expand counter-terror measures to target those seeking safety.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper attempted to appeal to viewers on right-wing GB News, saying that the Tory’s scheme to deport people to Rwanda “is a scheme for 1 per cent of asylum-seekers” while “there is no plan for the 99 per cent and it is costing the taxpayer over half-a-billion pounds.”
Under Labour’s plans, £75 million would be shelled out on security to “go after” smugglers and target those fleeing to Britain on small boats.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
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
