Labour promised to scrap the Rwanda policy. But its new approach aims to be just as tough on asylum seekers

By Erica Consterdine, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University

Migration policy has always been an ideological headache for the Labour party. Caught between the party’s labour market protectionism and international solidarity, Keir Starmer was fairly muted on migration during the election campaign.

Now that they are in power, we are starting to see what a Labour government’s policy on asylum and migration looks like. Labour’s approach is centred around border security, and ultimately aims to reduce the number of asylum claimants – albeit in a less sensationalist…

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