UK interior minister Shabana Mahmood announced tougher regulations on March 5, noting that they will revoke aid for asylum seekers and refugees with a criminal record.
UK immigration rules will soon become even tougher as part of an ever harder line taken by the government led by the Labour Party's 'moderate' Keir Starmer in an attempt to maintain pledges to reduce immigration levels post-Brexit.
Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood, daughter of immigrants but a supporter of a hardline stance, announced on March 5 in a speech at Westminster that a new law would be introduced to revoke authorization for aid and social benefits for asylum seekers and refugees accused of breaking the law.
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Announcement follows crackdown on asylum rights
Those found to have been working "illegally" will be affected by the new measure, with the revocation of any government support for the payment of accommodation for those fleeing wars, catastrophes, and persecution.
The announcement comes after another one in recent days on the authorization for a wider crackdown on asylum rights, which will result in the UK following the Danish model, comprising periodic checks and possible deportation in the case of improvement in the situation of the countries of origin of the asylum seekers and refugees as well as a temporary halt to the issuing of visas for young people from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan.
Natives of these countries are suspected of 'abusing' these visas in large numbers to make an asylum claim after first coming to the UK to study, officials claim.
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Greens accuse PM and interior minister of 'following far right'
The initiatives at the center of these latest polemics are being introduced amid a situation seeing Labor losing ground in Manchester to both the Greens (who won the election) and the far-right Reform UK, the party under Trump supporter Nigel Farage and which has for months been in the lead in national polls.
Conservatives have accused the Starmer government of adopting measures that are late and "not enough", while the Greens (backed by dissidents from the leftist Labor party) instead accuse the prime minister and Minister Mahmoud of "echoing" the "anti-immigration rhetoric" of right-wing parties.
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