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Morning Star Editorial: Curbing refugee rights is no solution to Britain’s problems
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/curbing-refugee-rights-no-solution-britains-problems
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood speaking after Lucy Powell is announced as the new Deputy Leader of the Labour Party at an event in central London, October 25, 2025THE Labour Party delegation that visited Denmark recently came back with the sense that the Scandinavian country’s mix of an eroding social democratic welfare system combined with a “muscular” immigration policy was a perfect fit for contemporary Britain.
And, in the imagination of many Labour MPs — those equally afeard of their electorates and of the No 10 disciplinary culture — this will tackle their most pressing fear, that a combination of Labour (and Keir Starmer’s) unpopularity with the appeal of Nigel Farage’s latest vehicle will see them jobless.
The idea that appeasing those voters in the grip of the delusion that restricting the rights of refugees is the key to solving Britain’s immigration problems will claw back electoral credibility has induced a paralysis.
Even the dimmest knows that Labour’s problems are deeper than this but they think this surrender to a primitive nativism is a quick fix.
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This is dressed up in the usual self-flattering language that is standard when Labour politicians surrender before a reactionary idea.
Far from Britain having “a proud tradition of welcoming those fleeing danger,” our country has a long tradition of receiving them with reluctance and hostility. There is not a Jewish family that does not have tales of hostility to their families fleeing eastern Europe, and of Holocaust survivors refused settlement both here and in Palestine. Migrants fleeing the empire to fill jobs in Britain faced no less hostility and discrimination.
Where the lie is made explicit is in Mahmood’s framing of the issue, that our “generosity is drawing illegal migrants across the Channel.”
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See the original article at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/curbing-refugee-rights-no-solution-britains-problems
Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reform
Exclusive: thinktank report finds health secretary has failed to improve productivity and the health service is unlikely to meet its targets
Wes Streeting has been accused of taking a “chaotic and incoherent approach” to reforming the NHS, which makes it unlikely the government will hit its own targets, according to a damning report by the Institute for Government (IfG).
The report praises elements of how the health secretary has managed the health service in his first year in office, including improving performance and staff retention in hospitals. The pay settlement he reached with resident doctors last year avoided a winter plagued by NHS strikes
But it also criticises significant aspects of his performance, including the way he handled the abolition of NHS England and his lack of action to stem the exodus of senior GPs.
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Stuart Hoddinott, the IfG’s associate director and the author of the report, said: “There have been some positive steps: performance is trending slowly upwards in hospitals, there’s been a genuinely large increase in GPs and the rate at which hospital staff are leaving their jobs is the lowest on record outside the pandemic.
“But that has been undermined by a chaotic and incoherent approach to reforming the service. The announcement of NHS England’s abolition was abysmally handled and management cuts in integrated care boards have been a needless distraction.”
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Original article at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/15/wes-streeting-accused-of-chaotic-and-incoherent-approach-to-nhs-reform
Zarah Sultana: Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting are like the Kray twins
https://www.facebook.com/reel/859307746435909
Heavy rains flood tents sheltering displaced Gazans for 3rd day
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Dozens of tents sheltering displaced families have been flooded by rainwater in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the Civil Defence said Sunday, Anadolu reports.
For the third consecutive day, Gaza has been affected by a weather depression accompanied by cold air, rain, and strong winds, with meteorological forecasts expecting it to subside by Sunday evening.
Stormy winds have caused thousands of tents to collapse or be blown away, leaving families staying on the streets and forcing many to seek shelter inside destroyed buildings that pose serious safety risks.
In a statement, the Gaza Civil Defence renewed warnings about the “risk of destroyed, structurally unstable buildings collapsing on their occupants” due to heavy rain and winds.
“We have recorded a large-scale disaster caused by the storm that hit Gaza amid the massive destruction inflicted by Israel during two years of genocide,” spokesman Mahmoud Basal said.
READ: Israel returns remains of 15 more Gazans under ceasefire deal, Health Ministry
He appealed to the international community to assume its responsibilities and provide urgent relief to Palestinians in Gaza.
“Every passing second brings more harm and pain to the Palestinian people.”
According to the Gaza Media Office, 1.5 million Palestinians are displaced in Gaza, living in catastrophic conditions with little access to basic necessities and severely limited essential services due to Israel’s ongoing blockade.
Israel has killed more than 69,000 people, mostly women and children, in attacks in Gaza since October 2023 and reduced it to rubble.
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