The clarification did not come before MPs took to social media to speak out. \u201cTaking\u00a0jewellery\u00a0from refugees\u201d\u00a0is\u00a0\u201cakin to painting over murals for refugee children,\u201d\u00a0another backbench MP, Sarah Owen, said, referencing\u00a0a controversial order under the Conservatives to cover up cartoons at an accommodation\u00a0centre\u00a0for unaccompanied child migrants.<\/p>\n
The first\u00a0Labour\u00a0MP quoted above\u00a0said\u00a0that while\u00a0many of his colleagues were seeing voters switch to Reform UK, a \u201chell of a lot of people\u201d are going to the\u00a0center-left Liberal Democrats and the Greens. \u201cThe tone that\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0taken on immigration and asylum will hurt us as well,\u201d the MP added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Moral duty\u2019<\/p>\n
Government figures strongly disagree with the criticism \u2014 and think they have the public in their corner on this one.<\/p>\n
They sought to highlight More in Common polling<\/a> that suggested even Green voters would support some individual measures that are used in Denmark \u2014 such as only granting asylum seekers temporary residence (50 percent support, 25 percent oppose.)<\/p>\n A third, supportive MP on the right of the party pointed out there were \u201cno surprise names\u201d among those who had broken ranks to criticize the government\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n Mahmood\u00a0insisted Monday\u00a0the\u00a0government has\u00a0a \u201cmoral duty\u201d to fix\u00a0Britain\u2019s\u00a0\u201cbroken\u201d asylum\u00a0system.\u00a0\u201cUnless we can persuade\u00a0people\u00a0we can control our borders, we\u2019re not going to get a hearing on anything else,\u201d\u00a0former Minister Justin Madders\u00a0told Times Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n It is\u00a0an\u00a0\u201cexistential test of whether we deserve to govern this country,\u201d\u00a0a serving minister\u00a0said. They warned that if\u00a0Starmer\u00a0fails,\u00a0the outcome in policy terms could be \u201ca whole lot more drastic.\u201d<\/p>\n Noah Keate contributed reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The clarification did not come before MPs took to social media to speak out. \u201cTaking\u00a0jewellery\u00a0from refugees\u201d\u00a0is\u00a0\u201cakin to painting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[815,816,5343,59,57,58,2795,110757,3714,50,633,22874,938,46247,470,110758,72363,224,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-268395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-asylum","tag-borders","tag-culture","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-immigration","tag-justin-madders","tag-media","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-racism","tag-refugees","tag-richard-tice","tag-rights","tag-sarah-owen","tag-shabana-mahmood","tag-social-media","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}