I made a brief intervention in a Westminster Hall debate, highlighting the impact of immigration reforms on humanitarian visas. The government’s latest immigration reforms will be damaging for migrants and our country as a whole. They are about projecting toughness to an electorate that is being driven further and further rightwards on the issue with little effective mainstream political opposition. Plans to reassess recognised refugees are wrong and destabilising. If someone is granted status, they deserve a chance to build their life here in safety. It is colossal waste of resources at a time when the biggest driving factor of accommodation costs is the slow speed of processing claims. I am concerned that the most likely outcome of such reforms will be a continuation of the problems they purport to resolve and a similar response from an electorate that sees more broken promises. We need a humane and evidence-based approach to immigration policy that reflects our country’s needs and recognises the contribution migrants make. On a national level, we need to push back against anti-migrant sentiment rather than pandering to it.