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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

More than 900 Labour figures decry party’s migration and asylum policy

Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer and Labour ministers have faced warnings that attempting to limit the threat from Reform UK by acting tough on immigration could backfire. Photograph: Paul Grover/Reuters

A group of more than 900 Labour members and trade unionists, including MPs and peers, have accused the government of copying the “performative cruelty” of the Conservatives in its migration and asylum policy.

In a joint statement, they singled out the Home Office’s decision, revealed last week, to refuse citizenship to anyone who arrives in the UK via “a dangerous journey” such as a small boat over the Channel.

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