{"id":9356,"date":"2023-12-26T18:55:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T18:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2023-12-26T18:55:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T18:55:28","slug":"momentum-criticizes-starmer-over-offshoring-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/26\/momentum-criticizes-starmer-over-offshoring-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentum Criticizes Starmer over \u2018Offshoring\u2019 Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer is facing criticism from far-left group Momentum over his \u201cdisturbing\u201d interest in processing asylum-seekers overseas.<br \/>\nThe Labour leader said earlier this month that despite vowing to scrap the Tories\u2019 Rwanda deportation flight proposal if he won office, he was open to so-called \u201coffshoring\u201d.<br \/>\nThat is the practice of removing asylum seekers who arrive illegally in the UK to a third country, though &#8211; unlike the Rwanda plan &#8211; if approved they would then live in Britain.<br \/>\nMomentum, the left-wing activist group launched to push forward Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s agenda when he was Labour leader, issued a statement on Tuesday morning criticising Sir Keir\u2019s offshoring interest.<br \/>\nA Momentum spokesman said: \u201cThis is a disturbing report. Labour should not be the party of more deportations and more effective offshoring, and it doesn\u2019t need to be.<br \/>\n\u201cAs migration experts have said, the way to minimise perilous small boat crossings is to expand safe routes for refugees.<br \/>\n\u201cInstead of aping inhumane Tory policies like offshoring asylum seekers, Keir Starmer should be standing up for progressive values and migrants\u2019 rights. In doing so, he can offer a practical alternative to the Tories\u2019 cruel and divisive war on migrants.\u201d<br \/>\nLabour insiders have set three tests for any offshoring scheme, according to The Times, which state that the plan must be cost-effective, credible as a deterrent, and \u201clegally watertight\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Keir Starmer is facing criticism from far-left group Momentum over his \u201cdisturbing\u201d interest in processing asylum-seekers overseas. The Labour leader said earlier this month that despite vowing to scrap the Tories\u2019 Rwanda deportation flight proposal if he won office, he was open to so-called \u201coffshoring\u201d. That is the practice of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9358,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}