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    Starmer under pressure to distance UK from Italy’s hard-right immigration plans

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    Backbenchers and NGOs criticise decision to explore how country has cut migrant numbers at Rome talksKeir Starmer is under pressure from Labour backbenchers and NGOs to distance his government from Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right immigration policies on the eve of bilateral talks in Rome.After the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, said the UK would consider copying Italy’s plans to process asylum applicants in a third country such as Albania, one backbencher questioned why a Labour administration was “seeking to learn lessons from a neo-fascist government”. Continue reading…

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    Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/15/starmer-under-pressure-to-distance-uk-from-italys-hard-right-immigration-plans

    Author : Aletha Adu in Rome and Rajeev Syal

    Publish date : 2024-09-15 23:30:07

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