In continental Europe, Denmark is a prominent case of a government led by a centre-left party whose hardline stance on asylum policy borrows from the political right. Britain’s Labour government, under huge pressure to tackle illegal immigration and counter the surge of Nigel Farage’s rightwing populist Reform party, is understandably looking for approaches that might work. Home secretary Shabana Mahmood’s tough policy paper several times cites measures embraced by the government of Denmark’s social democratic prime minister Mette Frederiksen. The result is the biggest change in UK immigration policy for decades, decried by some on the left as “un-British”. But Denmark is an imperfect model for the UK.
在歐洲大陸，丹麥是一個典型案例：政府由中左翼政黨領導，但在庇護政策上借鑒右翼主張采取強硬立場。英國工黨政府——在應對非法移民，以及奈杰爾?法拉奇(Nigel Farage)的右翼民粹主義英國改革黨迅速崛起所帶來的巨大壓力下——正合情合理地尋找可能奏效的方案。內政大臣莎芭娜?馬哈茂德(Shabana Mahmood)的一份強硬政策文件多次援引丹麥政府及其社會民主黨首相梅特?弗雷澤里克森(Mette Frederiksen)所采取的措施。其結果是數十年來英國移民政策最大的一次變革，被一些左翼人士斥為“很不英國”。但丹麥并非英國的理想范本。