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The Tories are desperately using racism to distract from their own failings
It should be clear why the Tory government is in the gutter once more, using asylum and immigration to whip up racism and win votes, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Migrants Border Force

IT IS a terrible irony that this government’s two highest office-holders have been found to have broken the law after a prolonged Tory campaign against “illegal asylum-seekers.” 

That campaign has reached a new and frankly despicable turn with the announcement that the government intends to set up an offshore refugee-processing centre.

Of course, it may be a long time before anyone is ever processed there. If the Home Office immigration division operates with its usual efficiency it could be a very long time.

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