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LABOUR backbencher Mark Lazarowicz slammed the government’s “shameful” refusal yesterday to support future search-and-rescue missions to save desperate migrants trying to reach Europe from North Africa.
An Italian mission currently operating in the Mediterranean is being wound up, with a more limited European Union border security operation being launched on November 1.
Earlier this month the government sparked outrage when it claimed search-and-rescue operations might encourage more illegal immigrants to attempt the crossing.
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
