Zoe Gardner

Jun 19, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Zoe Gardner

Labour’s manifesto launch last week was billed as deliberately boring. We were warned there would be no new policies and no surprises and indeed there weren’t, as the party attempts to project stability and serious politics over gimmicks. But when so much of our society is in crisis, is such caution really credible? On migration the document is more defined by what isn’t said than by what is.

Jun 5, 2024 | bylinetimes.com | Zoe Gardner

Subscribe to our newsletter for exclusive editorial emails from the Byline Times Team. Like some grisly ghost of Brexit past, Nigel Farage’s net-zero immigration pledge hovered all over last night’s election debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer. Like the Reform Party leader, both major parties have promised to reduce net immigration, but unlike him, neither have tried to pluck out a number for exactly by how much.

Jun 4, 2024 | msn.com | Zoe Gardner

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Jun 4, 2024 | metro.co.uk | Zoe Gardner

Nigel Farage has declared that he's trying to enter parliament at the eighth attempt, standing in Clacton, and that he wants to make this an 'immigration election'. Without skipping a beat, much of Britain's political and media ecosystem leapt up to dance along to his tune. The Reform UK leader is already generating pretty much wall-to-wall coverage, and the major parties risk only making an impression insofar as they try to compete with his anti-migrant agenda.

Feb 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Zoe Gardner

Labour must not make the mistake of being too timid on immigration. It will not be enough to stop doing some of the more egregious things that the current government proposes – such as sending refugees to Rwanda – and returning to a “sensible” level of hostility. Labour needs to be bold enough to undertake a radical overhaul of our failed immigration and asylum systems, and to start to manage the issue pragmatically and humanely for the benefit of all.