{"id":44388,"date":"2026-04-26T07:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/44388\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:26:38","slug":"britain-looks-to-frederiksens-migration-plan-to-neutralize-farage-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/44388\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain looks to Frederiksen\u2019s migration plan to neutralize Farage \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Home Office official, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive policy details, estimates the changes could extend to thousands of individuals. They would not rule out asylum seekers deemed to have broken the law being forced into destitution and rough sleeping in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmood will address critics who will balk at this by arguing that if citizens don\u2019t trust the state to fix what is one of their top priorities then \u201cthere is no space for Labour values\u201d to be realized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRestoring order and control at our border is not a betrayal of Labour values, it is an embodiment of them, and it is the necessary condition for a Labour government to achieve anything it hopes to,\u201d Mahmood is expected to tell the center-left IPPR think tank, according to extracts released in advance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2264013208-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8049612\"  \/>Mahmood will on Thursday try to take on complaints from her own more liberal-minded colleagues, as the struggling Labour Party tries to halt the rise of the right-wing, poll-topping Nigel Farage in the U.K. | Rasid Necati Aslim\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>She will add: \u201cA loss of control breeds fear, and when fearful people turn inwards their vision of this country narrows. Their patriotism turns into something smaller, something darker, an ethno-nationalism emerges. The idea of a greater Britain gives way to the lure of a littler England. And other voices \u2013 voices to the far right \u2013 take hold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Soft-left\u2019 jitters<\/p>\n<p>But Mahmood\u2019s pitch may fall on unreceptive ears in her own party. The bulk of Labour MPs on the party\u2019s so-called \u201csoft-left\u201d have only been made more jittery by the catastrophic defeat inflicted on them from the left in the Gorton and Denton by-election last week.<\/p>\n<p>In that contest, the triumphant Greens appealed to younger progressives as well as Muslim voters to overturn nearly a century of Labour representation in the south Manchester seat. Even worse, Farage\u2019s Reform came second, pushing Keir Starmer\u2019s ruling party into a distant third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A senior Home Office official, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive policy details, estimates the changes could extend to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[7147,2034,3084,382,4857,1065,18299,1429,493,2431,264,373,1431,4016,4018,2044,3211,1778,4505,1086,28184,2289,15540,3675,1435,3093,330,1436,185,7978,2876],"class_list":{"0":"post-44388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mette-frederiksen","8":"tag-asylum","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-cities","11":"tag-denmark","12":"tag-department","13":"tag-elections","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-far-right","16":"tag-immigration","17":"tag-imports","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-mette-frederiksen","20":"tag-migration","21":"tag-missions","22":"tag-nigel-farage","23":"tag-payments","24":"tag-poll","25":"tag-refugees","26":"tag-regions-cohesion","27":"tag-rights","28":"tag-sarah-owen","29":"tag-services","30":"tag-shabana-mahmood","31":"tag-space","32":"tag-tanks","33":"tag-tax","34":"tag-ukraine","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-war","37":"tag-water","38":"tag-welfare"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116469824359726042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}