Government’s ‘failed’ asylum system presents false hope, says Starmer | News | EUROtoday

Sir Keir Starmer stated the UK’s failed asylum system has turned refugee camps right into a “job-centre for modern slavery” as he outlined Labour’s plan to cease small boat crossings on Friday 10 May.

The Labour chief delivered a speech on the Kent coast through which he attacked the federal government’s present strategy as “rank incompetence” and dismissed the Rwanda scheme.

Sir Keir additionally recalled a go to to a refugee camp on the outskirts of Calais in 2016 and described the state of affairs as a “monumental failure”.

“People had been brutally let down,” he stated.

“Not just in terms of the truly awful conditions but also because the failure of our asylum system had encouraged a false hope.”