We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood. Meanwhile in Denmark:

The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum. UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands) UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany) Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.

I think most people would consider a net worth of ~£1.5m to be, at worst, well off.

An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.

GB News broadcasted a package last week on analysis of people with "foreign sounding" names. Peddling unverified and racist statistics on national TV is dangerous and we must call it out. The Liberal Democrats are calling on Ofcom to investigate and take swift action. Anna Sabine MP

Patriotism would have been coming forward before Brexit. Too little, too late.

Nothing if not consistent. Unfortunately.

This assumes that blue Labour isn't deliberately trying to get the NF party elected. The actions of this government are indistinguishable from a clique doing exactly that.

He's right, our monarchy would expect coverups to go on for decades. And it still is with Jeffrey's special friend...

Of course he did, the whole of blue Labour is a front for the NF party.

I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them. The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...

Disagree. Mahmood is right. Far right.

Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government. Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

How the tone of this post is somewhat undermined by the 4th...

Good

Fingers crossed

Well..

“Polls suggest the most probable result is a loss for the party’s candidate, a former government minister understood to have been handpicked by the PM. “Among the reasons cited by analysts are frustration with Frederiksen’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration.”

What the Labour Party used to understand was that it wasn’t that immigration was tearing the country apart, but that immigration was what was holding the country together. Immigration kept our NHS going, our transport system going, our education and much more. It’s still true. They must know it.

One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia. As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards. Now government policy

Ellie Chowns, "People are frustrated with the problems of the country" "It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that" "There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"

Quite a staggering statistic. Trump isn’t just bringing misery to immigrants, he’s harming everyone. #TrumpSlump

Mahmood now doing recruitment for @carladenyer.bsky.social & the @greenparty.org.uk!

Shabana Mahmood, "I am the one that is regularly called a f*cking Paki and told to go back home" Shabana Mahmood's solution is to ape the far right What a pathetic way to address the issue of asylum seekers, playing the race card - sad, and disgusting

Major beneficiaries of the new Labour policy? Reform. Secondary beneficiaries? Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru Major losers? Labour, the U.K., humanity.

Hey Labour Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety? We're still over here 👋

Naively I think being a refugee is an exceptional circumstance

SATURDAY: Caller calls Rachel Reeves "Rachel from accounts" and Matthew Wright chastises him for sexism and misogyny. MONDAY: Caller calls Rachel Reeves "Rachel from accounts" and Shelagh sniggers into the mic. Tell me again which one cares about women's rights? @lbc.co.uk

Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2

Sheer cruelty on display in the Home Secretary's proposed new asylum laws, which could see refugee families with children suddenly uprooted and deported after spending years rebuilding their lives in Britain. Shameful capitulation to Reform's agenda at the expense of the most vulnerable.

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served. F that!

We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵

Labour MP for Stroud, Simon Opher, says his party should "stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel". "We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".

Labour MP Simon Opher - "We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. "Measures that create bureaucracy and insecurity do not offer clarity or strengthen control – they cost money, waste time and weaken the system."

A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one. It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution. This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.

Family jewellery is one of the few things you can carry when fleeing war or persecution. The cruelty in this policy is worse than just the financial one. It’s ripping away the remains of family.

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

Anyone not working to reverse brexit is a traitor

Can you see the problem 🤷🏻‍♂️ Wes Streeting can’t 🤦🏻‍♂️ 31million/month consult GP practices with similar number having haircuts 102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons 38,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries On average people spend £400pa on hair GPs receive £169pa per patient

For about ten minutes after Keir Starmer’s conference speech it seemed like the PM understood what his voters wanted to hear – an actual challenge to the racism of Reform. But instead of seeing it as the start of new messaging, it feels like his team just regarded it as job done.

🌍 42.5m refugees Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. 🇬🇧 548k refugees = 0.78% of the UK population. It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us. My letter to my MP. #asylum #Mahmood 🧵

Fits with her boss (MG) palling around with Bannon. Utterly disgraceful

You are not going to be able to pull together the anti-Reform coalition if voters don't see you are meaningfully different to Reform. Mad reaction from the government given an increasing threat on the left.

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

I predicted this. So did lots of other people who paid the tiniest amount of attention. Weird how none of them have jobs explaining politics to the public, and it's all these people performing uncomprehension and amazement for the camera instead.

Labour have finally unlocked the "Tommy Robinson approves of our immigration policy" achievement badge. It has taken 16 months, but their journey to an irredeemably vile party now seems complete. They are the enemy now. Not the only enemy. But they are as much the enemy as the Tories ever were.

I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning. That's who you've joined. Tommy Robinson.