Asylum Policy

Zarah Sultana Excerpts

Monday 17th November 2025 Commons Chamber

[Zarah Sultana (Coventry South) (Ind)]

Sivanandan warned:

“What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after.”

Seizing valuables belonging to asylum seekers, making refugees wait 20 years before they can apply to settle permanently, and deporting entire families, including children who have built new lives here, because their country of origin is deemed safe—these measures are straight out of the fascist playbook. The Home Secretary has described herself as a child of immigrants, so I ask her: is she proud to introduce measures that punish and persecute desperate and vulnerable people seeking sanctuary? How does it feel to kick away the ladder and be praised by fascist Tommy Robinson? I must add—

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Judith Cummins)]

Order. [Interruption.] Order!