Labour urged to drop Tory rhetoric or risk failing to fix broken asylum system

Labour urged to drop Tory rhetoric or risk failing to fix broken asylum system

Exclusive: End focus on deportations and use language of ‘compassion and humanity’, says Refugee Council

Labour will be at real risk of failing to reform the UK’s broken asylum system unless it challenges Tory rhetoric and stops focusing on the deportation of asylum seekers, the head of the Refugee Council has said.

Enver Solomon, the charity’s chief executive, said Keir Starmer must use the language of “compassion and humanity” in order to tackle the vilification of refugees.

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