A LABOUR MP was ridiculed yesterday for accusing the Home Secretary of trying to appease the electorate with her immigration crackdown.
Cat Eccles said Shabana Mahmood’s “populist” asylum overhaul echoed Reform and was the opposite of compassionate.
The Stourbridge MP told Times Radio: “It feels they are trying to be seen to be doing something to appease the electorate.”
Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf hit back: “To the political class, voters are the great unwashed, to be lied to, scolded and lectured.
“Never appeased.
“Well Cat, a reckoning is coming.”
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The measures, including allowing enforced removal of families, have been publicly opposed by about 20 Labour MPs so far.
Housing Secretary Steve Reed has hit back at the rebels, declaring that “every single” Labour MP was elected on a manifesto pledge to control Britain’s borders.
Nigel Farage said Reform supported the “rhetoric” put forward by the Home Secretary but that they were not convinced it would work.
He went on: “Is it just another one of these big performative exercises to say to the Red Wall audience that ‘we are really with you, you don’t need to go away and flirt with those ghastly Reform types.”
