I have just made a second submission to labour’s national policy forum. This one is on behalf of the labour campaign for free movement and covers the policy issue of immigration.
The submission starts by reminding the Forum of Labour’s rules by quoting from Clause IV , the aim to create a society, where we live together freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect and that the society we build society which judges its strength by the condition of the weak as much as the strong, provides security against fear, and justice at work; which nurtures families, promotes equality of opportunity, and delivers people from the tyranny of poverty, prejuidice and the abuse of power.
It then demands that guiding principles of Britain’s immigration policy must be solidarity and dignity with migrants irrespective of their reasons for wishing to come to the UK and that it is necessary and right to observe the UK’s international treaty obligations including the European Convention on Human Rights and the 1951 Refugee Convention.
It concludes with a series of demands for legislative change, the repeal of Tory laws, the adoption of Labour Conference policy (2019) and a series of demands to improve the life of migrant workers, refugees , students and their families and to not implement most of the reforms announced in the recent white paper, “Restoring control over the immigration system”.
A version of the submission is immediately below, and via a google drive link.
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You can make your own submissions at the NPF site.