The UK’s Labour government wants to copy Danish measures to make refugees’ status more temporary and even confiscate their valuables. It’s a dangerous policy that will only fuel a race to the right, as it’s already doing in Denmark.

In 1968, British Conservative Enoch Powell was dismissed from the Shadow Cabinet after what became known as his “Rivers of Blood” speech. In it, Powell recounted a conversation with an “ordinary working man,” who, he claimed, was staying in the United Kingdom only because he couldn’t afford to leave. What was pushing him away: immigration and Brits being made “strangers in their own country.” When current Labour prime minister Keir Starmer presented his government’s new direction in migration policy, he evoked the language of that speech, claiming that if Brit

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