Left-leaning Labour politicians have accused the Home Office of “enabling the mainstreaming of racism” after footage showing people being removed from the UK was released for the first time.
Clive Lewis, the Labour MP for Norwich South, said ministers were “enabling the mainstreaming of racism” by showing people being deported.
Accompanying the release of the footage, a press release said the Home Office had “for the first time” shared images of the inner working of the removals process.
In an article for the Guardian, Enver Solomon, the chief executive of the Refugee Council, wrote: “Melodramatic footage and maligning narratives that risk punching down on the men, women and children in the boats who are victims of traffickers and smugglers will not give the public confidence that the [asylum] system is working.”.
Deportation footage ‘enables mainstreaming of racism’, Clive Lewis says Labour MP and others on left of party speak out after ‘cruel’ video shown.
