The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
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.
Labour cannot win another election by accommodating racism, instead it should focus on finding solutions to social concerns that too often seek scapegoats, writes DIANE ABBOTT
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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


