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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Aletha Adu Political correspondent

What are Labour’s new asylum policies? And what are the political risks?

Yvette Cooper speaks in parliament.
The home secretary is seeking to wrest back control of the political narrative. Photograph: House Of Commons/AFP/Getty Images

After a summer recess dominated by headlines about Reform UK’s hardline immigration proposals and protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers, the home secretary returned to parliament seeking to wrest back control of the narrative.

Yvette Cooper has announced a flurry of tough asylum measures including suspending refugee family reunion applications, and even floated the idea that refugees could be moved out of hotels and into warehouses instead.

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