Asylum: Starmer panders to Tories
Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s xenophobic rhetoric and anti-refugee policies escalate. Braverman’s latest claim is that suffering from anti-gay or anti-women discrimination is no valid reason for seeking asylum. We urgently need firm political opposition, fighting for an alternative based on sanctuary, free movement and working-class solidarity. Instead, the Labour leadership continues to pander to the panic manufactured by the racist right. Starmer’s team repeatedly claims that the government has allowed migration to get out of control, and promise they would more competently...