Once again, the government has failed to respond to the real issues facing people in this country.

Instead of prioritising meaningful change to address rising costs and inequality, struggling public services and a crumbling NHS, housing shortages and a growing climate emergency, it has chosen to blame migrants – in another cynical attempt to distract people from its own failures, and to appeal to right-wing voters. Just days after Keir Starmer rightly labelled Reform’s dangerous and unrealistic proposal to end indefinite leave to remain ‘racist’ and ‘immoral’, his government then rushed out proposals that I see as just the same.

Yesterday, in her Labour conference speech, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced a series of new and restrictive conditions for migrants entering the country

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