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Home Secretary Sajid Javid
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn warned the government today to treat refugees crossing the English Channel in a “humanitarian” way.
He made the comments after Home Secretary Sajid Javid publicly cast doubt on whether the migrants were “genuine” asylum-seekers.
Mr Corbyn refused to follow the government’s reactionary right-wing rhetoric and instead said the refugees are “the product of wars, they are the product of human rights abuses, they are the product of environmental disasters.”
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
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
