MP: Asylum seekers face similar hostile environment to 1940s Jewish refugees

Asylum seekers in the UK face a “similar hostile environment” to Jewish refugees arriving in the 1940s, MPs have heard.

Labour former minister Dame Margaret Hodge recalled her family’s experiences during the Second World War and in the years before relating it to what asylum seekers encounter today.

Dame Margaret, 79, warned “language we use today matters” as she criticised those who say asylum seekers are “invading” Britain and pose an “existential threat” to the West.