What are Labour’s new asylum policies? And what are the political risks?
Yvette Cooper has announced several tough policies after a summer dominated by Farage and Reform UKAfter a summer recess dominated by headlines about Reform UK’s hardline immigration proposals and protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers, the home secretary returned to parliament seeking to...
<p>Yvette Cooper has announced several tough policies after a summer dominated by Farage and Reform UK</p><p>After a summer recess dominated by headlines about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/26/farage-aims-for-hardline-vibes-with-his-mass-deportation-plan">Reform UK’s hardline immigration proposals</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/27/essex-epping-bell-hotel-protests">protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers</a>, the home secretary returned to parliament seeking to wrest back control of the narrative.</p><p>Yvette Cooper has announced a flurry of tough asylum measures including <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/01/uk-to-make-it-harder-for-refugees-to-bring-family-members-to-country">suspending refugee family reunion applications</a>, and even floated the idea that refugees could be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/02/cooper-reeves-starmer-green-party-leader-badenoch-devolution-latest-updates?page=with%3Ablock-68b6ee0e8f08020a75f11cde#block-68b6ee0e8f08020a75f11cde">moved out of hotels and into warehouses instead</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/02/labour-new-asylum-measures-political-risks">Continue reading...</a>
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