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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

Albanian PM accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘ethnic stereotyping’ in asylum reforms

The prime minister of Albania has accused home secretary Shabana Mahmood of “ethnic stereotyping” after she singled out Albanian families for refusing to return to their homeland in her controversial announcements on asylum this week.

Edi Rama was furious that Ms Mahmood had singled out Albanians in her document, and questioned how a Labour minister could “so poorly echo the rhetoric of the populist far right”.

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