RISHI Sunak’s first few days as Prime Minster have been dominated by criticism of his decision to reinstate Suella Braverman as Home Secretary.

After garnering the nickname ‘leaky Sue’ for her leaking of sensitive information and facing accusations for breaking the Ministerial Code, the Home Secretary now confronts the crisis at Manston migrant processing centre.

The immigration centre was labelled as a ‘breach of humane conditions’ with reports of 4000 people held at the site leading to dangerous overcrowding.

In the five years since I was first elected, I’ve watched on in horror as the political and public debate around refugees has reached new highs of hatred and fearmongering.

The Tory government – which has now seen five Prime Ministers in six years – has increasingly enacted anti-migrant policies, choosing to scapegoat asylum seekers and refugees.

There is such a myriad of appalling policies which have emanated from Westminster, it’s actually hard to single one out. From the Rwanda deportation plan to the no recourse to public funds policy, each of them has caused fear and misery for some of the most vulnerable people on the face of our planet.

This week at Prime Minister’s Questions, both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer exchanged blows over immigration policy. Normally, at the best of times, Prime Minister’s question time is like watching two bald men fight over a comb, but it was even worse this week, as both attempted to one-up each other over whose party was more anti-migrant.

For a party which purports to stand for solidarity, I watched on in disbelief as Labour’s leader seemed intent on proving that his party is ‘tough on immigration’. It left me wondering if Labour would bring back their infamous “controls on immigration” mug from the 2015 election campaign.

The depressing reality is that both the Conservatives and the Labour Party are speaking the same language on issues of immigration – an issue we as Glaswegians have a more compassionate view on.

This is increasingly becoming a trend of the two major parties in Westminster, seemingly using indistinguishable rhetoric over a number of policy issues. After all, they both know that winning the Government at the next election will come down to about 40 or 50 seats in English market towns. That’s why you can’t get a cigarette paper between them when it comes to policy. They’re chasing the same votes.

Whether it is migration, public spending or Brexit, the inescapable truth is that Labour and the Tories are no different.

Scotland voted 62% to stay in the EU and we have witnessed the devastating impacts that the Brexit deal has had across our country.

Neither the Conservatives nor Labour care about what Scotland wants – they are not listening to us.

The anti-migrant rhetoric in the Westminster bubble does not reflect the opinions of people in Glasgow. Let us not forget that we are a city of migrants, whether it’s the Irish who sought refuge here during the famine, Asian families who settled in the Southside in the 1960s and 1970s or the Syrian and Ukrainian refugees we have opened our homes up to in the past few years.

All of us who identify as Glaswegian are proud of that phrase People Make Glasgow because it sums us up to a T. But that phrase is precisely that. It’s people who make Glasgow, not Scottish people, not white people, not Christian people, but all of us.

I am reminded of the recent scenes in Kenmure Street where residents prevented an early morning raid and the detention of two men. Glasgow came together and stood against the Home Office – and Glasgow won.

As a city, we gathered together to show support for asylum seekers and refugees. For Glaswegians, solidarity isn’t just a wee phrase written on a party membership, it’s in our DNA.

The fact is, we are all immigrants.

If like me, you are sick, tired and fed up with Westminster politicians denigrating those who flee famine, war and sexual violence, then you will similarly have been left concluding that the only way Scotland can have a humane, decent and compassionate migration policy will be by taking it out of the hands of London, and governing with the very values that make us all proud to be Glaswegian.