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Home Secretary Suella Braverman, arrives in Downing Street, Westminster, London
A SURVIVOR of the Nazi Holocaust has compared Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s language towards asylum-seekers to Nazi rhetoric against Jews before millions were slaughtered in gas chambers.
Ms Braverman’s description of refugees fleeing wars and persecution as “swarms” and “an invasion” were quoted by 81-year-old Joan Salter when she confronted the Home Secretary at a Q&A session at the MP’s Fareham constituency in Hampshire.
Ms Salter escaped Nazi-occupied Europe as a child in the 1940s before being finding refuge in Britain.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE