"Good morning. The Labour conference is over, the Conservative party one starts on Sunday, but both of them have got significant policy announcements out today. For Labour, Keir Starmer is announcing government plans to tighten the conditions that apply to asylum seekers given the right to stay in the UK. Provocatively, he says: There will be no golden ticket to settling in the UK, people will have to earn it. Rajeev Syal has the story."
"There is a clear link between the stories: both of them are Reform UK-flavoured, very strongly so in the Tory case (because Nigel Farage would also get rid of the Climate Change Act), but less so in the Labour case (because Farage does not want to tighten conditions for asylum seekers he basically does not want any of them here at all.)"
"But the Starmer announcement shows that, while the message from Labour conference was that Starmer is now willing to vigorously contest some aspects of Faragism, he is not rejecting it wholesale. He has set out a dividing line but it is beyond the edge of the territory where migration liberals feel comfortable. One consequence of the Labour conference is that ministers now feel a lot more confident about clobbering Farage's party and this morning we saw that from Mike Tapp, the migration minister."
Labour plans to tighten conditions for asylum seekers granted the right to stay, with Keir Starmer saying there will be no golden ticket and people must earn settlement. The Conservatives, led by Kemi Badenoch, pledged to repeal the Climate Change Act if they win the next election. Both policy moves overlap with Reform UK positions, strongly in the Conservative case because Nigel Farage also supports repealing the Act, and to a lesser extent in Labour's tougher migration stance. Labour ministers feel emboldened to challenge Farage's party, while Reform figures have criticised Starmer.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]