47 m. ago Mahmood says UK asylum system ‘out of control’ as she defends Labour crackdown amid growing backlash

Labour backbenchers accuse government of ‘chasing Reform’ with new measures

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2 h. ago Labour to deport more families under Mahmood’s new asylum crackdown despite growing backlash

Labour backbenchers accuse government of ‘chasing Reform’ with new measures

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4 h. ago Mahmood reveals asylum plan as Labour backlash grows over ‘dystopian’ immigration crackdown

Labour backbenchers accuse government of ‘chasing Reform’ with new measures

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5 h. ago Labour backlash grows over ‘dystopian’ and ‘visionless’ asylum crackdown

Labour backbenchers accuse government of ‘chasing Reform’ with new measures

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7 h. ago Starmer facing growing backlash from Labour MPs as Mahmood sets out asylum plans – UK politics live

Home secretary to announce a drastic tightening of rules, including requiring asylum seekers to wait 20 years before getting the right to permanently settle in UKMomentum, the leftwing Labour group, has also denounced the government’s asylum plans. In a statement it says:The home secretary’s new immigration plans are divisive and xenophobic.Scapegoating migrants will not fix our public services or end austerity.Draconian, unworkable and potentially illegal anti-asylum policies only feed Reform’s support.The government has learnt nothing from the period since the general election.Some of the legal changes being proposed are truly frightening:Abolishing the right to a family life would ultimately affect many more people than asylum-seekers. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Labour MPs hit out at ‘performative cruelty’ of Shabana Mahmood’s asylum crackdown

Labour backbenchers accuse government of ‘chasing Reform’ with new measures

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11 h. ago Shabana Mahmood to ramp up deportations by overriding ECHR in fresh immigration crackdown

Home secretary will attempt to change way ECHR is interpreted by UK judges – as critics hit out over proposals

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19 h. ago Labour to announce largest UK immigration overhaul in a generation

Home secretary will attempt to change way ECHR is interpreted by UK judges – as critics hit out over proposals

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21 h. ago Labour to overhaul human rights laws in bid to ramp up migrant deportations

Home secretary will attempt to change way ECHR is interpreted by UK judges – as critics hit out over proposals

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44 h. ago Sydney Sweeney steps out in a chic mini dress as she shrugs off criticism after disastrous Christy movie flop amid growing backlash

Sydney Sweeney shrugged off criticism surrounding her disastrous Christy movie flop, as she stepped out in a chic mini dress on Saturday.

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68 h. ago South Carolina executes man by firing squad, in state’s third such killing in year

Stephen Bryant, 44, convicted over 2004 murder, was shot dead despite growing backlash against ‘barbaric’ methodSouth Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday, marking the third time the state has used gunfire to kill a person on death row despite growing backlash against the method.Stephen Bryant, 44, had been sentenced to death for the October 2004 killing of Willard “TJ” Tietjen and pleaded guilty to two other murders. Bryant’s lawyers had argued in final appeals that the sentencing judge had been unable to consider his brain damage from his mother’s alcohol and drug use during pregnancy, but South Carolina’s supreme court declined to halt the execution on Monday. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Labour fears of voter backlash grow as Reeves looks at income tax options

Raising levies would go against party’s manifesto pledges

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