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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rajeev Syal

UNBELIEVABLE: Labour urged to drop tory rhetoric or risk failing to fix broken asylum system - The Untold Story

A police officer stands outside a Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, where furniture is piled up in a doorway
Asylum hotels in Rotherham (pictured) and Tamworth have been attacked this summer by far-right activists. Photograph: Mark Waugh/The Guardian

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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