Labour warned against ‘dancing to Tory tune’ by offshoring asylum claims

Reports party is considering options for processing asylum claims overseas criticised by SNP, charities and pressure groups

Labour has been warned that processing asylum claims offshore could harm refugees and amount to “dancing to the Tory tune” on immigration, as it declined to rule out adopting such a policy.

The party has been looking at “offshoring” to deal with migration via illegal routes but charities, the SNP and the leftwing pressure group Momentum have said it would be a dangerous path to go down.