Labour's asylum crackdown is enough to make Scrooge blush

For anyone that hasn’t yet seen the new festive film Christmas Karma , there’s one character that feels a little too familiar.

In Gurinder Chadha’s retelling of A Christmas Carol , Scrooge is a “rich British Indian who despises refugees ”. A part that lands perfectly, because outside the cinema, the same role is being played to perfection.

Shabana Mahmood is the latest in a long line of British South Asian home secretaries determined to make life harder for migrants and refugees. Her new migration plan makes Christmas Karma look like a documentary.

At a time of political polarisation and rising anti-immigrant rhetoric, Christmas Karma is not just a festive film, it’s a moral parable for the Britain we’re living in. And it might be exactly what the country needs.

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