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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

Asylum policies open up pre-election divisions between Labour and Tories

Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper walk along a pavement in front of the Europol headquarters
Keir Starmer and the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, arriving at Europol headquarters in The Hague on Thursday. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Clear pre-election divisions have opened up between Labour and the Conservatives on immigration as Downing Street ruled out ever accepting an asylum seeker quota sharing deal with the EU, after Keir Starmer’s comments that he would.

Labour earlier announced details of a new immigration policy that it said would result in criminals involved in cross-Channel people-smuggling being treated as terrorists.

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