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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helena Smith

Third-country asylum plan shows UK is in ‘a very dark place’, says Albanian PM

Edi Rama (L) and Keir Starmer (R) inspect a guard of honourahead of their meeting in Tirana in May.
Rama, left, said Starmer’s plans were in keeping with a shift in public discourse, in which the ‘totally ridiculous, totally shameful’ had become normalised. Photograph: Malton Dibra/EPA

A UK plan to send refused asylum seekers to “return hubs” in third countries shows post-Brexit Britain is “in a very dark place”, Albania’s prime minister has said.

In his first interview with the international media since leading his socialist party to a historic fourth term in office, Edi Rama said the idea of the UK wanting to “look for places to dump immigrants” would have been inconceivable a decade ago.

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