Why Labour is going Danish on immigration – podcast | Immigration and asylum

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce a radical overhaul of the UK’s asylum and immigration system, modeled in part on what Denmark has done over the last decade.

Denmark’s center-left government has been trying something new since 2019: the usual social democratic manifesto, alongside a series of tough policies on immigration and asylum; even razing properties thought to contain large numbers of residents of “non-western” origins.

Helen Pidd He met with Politiken journalist Nilas Heinskou about what these policies entail, why they are popular and whether they can be replicated in the UK. Agob YacoubA Syrian refugee describes the growing climate of racism and Islamophobia in Danish politics since this experiment began.