How left-wing Denmark clamped down hard on immigration and won over working class voters

IT is one of the most liberal nations on Earth, with a left-wing govern- ment and generous welfare handouts.

Yet Denmark’s ruling Social Democrats party has clamped down hard on immigration to woo working-class voters.

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Immigration minister Kaare Dybvad Bek insisted: “If you want to be a party of the working class and middle class, you have to ensure that migration has a manageable level.”

And as the immigration row rages across Britain, it is a stark warning to Sir Keir Starmer and his Labour frontbench, who are plotting to block Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan next week.

Britain’s most senior judges have already ruled it is not a safe third nation to deport migrants to.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s party came to power in Denmark in 2019 vowing a clampdown on immigration.

Successful asylum bids had almost halved by her second year in office, from 85 per cent in 2015 to 44 per cent in 2020.

This year it was…