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.
在欧洲大陆，丹麦是一个典型案例：政府由中左翼政党领导，但在庇护政策上借鉴右翼主张采取强硬立场。英国工党政府——在应对非法移民，以及奈杰尔•法拉奇(Nigel Farage)的右翼民粹主义英国改革党迅速崛起所带来的巨大压力下——正合情合理地寻找可能奏效的方案。内政大臣莎芭娜•马哈茂德(Shabana Mahmood)的一份强硬政策文件多次援引丹麦政府及其社会民主党首相梅特•弗雷泽里克森(Mette Frederiksen)所采取的措施。其结果是数十年来英国移民政策最大的一次变革，被一些左翼人士斥为“很不英国”。但丹麦并非英国的理想范本。