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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

‘Slogans won’t solve this’: refugee charity staff on Labour’s new immigration policy

Keir Starmer outside Europol in The Hague, Netherlands
Keir Starmer. Steve Smith, CEO of Care4Calais, said: ‘Today was an opportunity for Keir Starmer to inject some decency and compassion into the debate around refugees.’ Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

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

He suggested that an agreement to send back people who cross the Channel could involve accepting quotas of asylum-seekers via the EU, and in doing so set out clear pre-election divisions between Labour and the Conservatives on immigration.

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