11 h. ago Met chief demands ‘insensitive’ Palestine Action protest called off in wake of Manchester terror attack

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood slammed the demonstration and Nigel Farage called it a ‘celebration of murder’

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16 h. ago Met Police demand huge Palestine Action protest is cancelled in wake of Manchester terror attack

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has also slammed demonstration going ahead in central London after synagogue attack

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55 h. ago 'It's like being at Glastonbury and I've just not been at the Pyramid stage'

Manchester MP Lucy Powell, a close friend of Andy Burnham, is standing to be deputy leader of the Labour Party

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66 h. ago Starmer vows rethink on international law to tackle migration

The prime minister’s words suggest that new home secretary Shabana Mahmood has won a major victory behind the scenes

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3 d. ago Shabana Mahmood floats wider uses of new national ID card, after Labour pledged it would only be used to prove the right to work

The new national identity card could be used to crack down on benefits cheats and 'all sorts of other things', Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said.

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4 d. ago Shabana Mahmood calls Nigel Farage ‘worse than racist’ over ‘dog

Home secretary also tells Labour conference fringe event of the abuse her family have been subjected to recently Warning: this article contains language that some may find offensiveThe home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has accused Nigel Farage of “worse than racist” dog-whistle politics as she described how members of her family had been racially abused near their home in recent weeks.After a speech calling on Labour and the UK to “fight for our belief in a greater Britain, not a littler England”, she said the Reform leader has “blown a very, very loud dog whistle to every racist in the country” with policies that would reassess the immigration status of people who have been granted a right to settle in the UK. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Nigel Farage's actions 'much worse than racism' says Shabana Mahmood in blistering attack

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has accused Reform leader Nigel Farage of sending dangerous 'dog whistle' messages to racists - saying he 'knows what he's doing'

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4 d. ago Unite the Kingdom marchers dubbed the 'heirs to skinheads' by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood as she acknowledges some voters feel Britain is 'spinning out of control'

The Home Secretary, who was born in Birmingham to parents of Pakistani descent, told Labour party conference that in some demonstrators' view she 'has no place' in Britain.

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4 d. ago London 'Unite the Kingdom' protest reflects bigger battle over UK’s identity, says Home Secretary

Shabana Mahmood told the Labour Party conference that the 150,000 people who took part in the Tommy Robinson-led march cannot all be dismissed as an ‘angry minority’

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4 d. ago Labour sets out new rules for migrants to learn English and work

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood told the Labour Party conference in Liverpool about the plans on Monday (September 29)

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4 d. ago Shabana Mahmood issues chilling warning as migration rules changed

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has warned a growing number are 'on a path from patriotism towards ethno nationalism', citing a Tommy Robinson-organised march this month

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4 d. ago Labour to announce tough new rules for migrants including higher English standard

It is among the changes being proposed by the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood today as she addresses the Labour party conference in her first major speech in the role

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4 d. ago Immigrants face 'good citizen' test to win the right to stay in Britain permanently as Labour tries to look tough

Anyone seeking 'indefinite leave to remain' (ILR) in Britain should have a 'spotless' criminal record, Shabana Mahmood will say.

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4 d. ago Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary

A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHSMore than 100 charities have sent a letter to the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, calling for an end to the “scapegoating of migrants”.The letter, sent before her speech at the Labour party conference in Liverpool on Monday afternoon, was coordinated by Refugee Action and signed by 105 organisations from a wide range of sectors – including Save the Children, Mind, Oxfam, Shelter, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, as well as dozens of migrant and anti-racism charities. It has also been signed by the PCS union, which represents Border Force workers. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Foreign nationals must have a 'spotless' criminal record to win the right to stay in Britain permanently, says Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood

Foreign nationals who commit crime in Britain could be barred from winning 'settled' status to stay here permanently, the Home Secretary will announce.

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5 d. ago Migrants must learn English and not claim benefits to stay in UK, Government says

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said migrants will have to contribute to society and their local communities

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5 d. ago Boat carrying record 125 migrants crossed Channel to UK on Saturday

The number of people on board breaks a previous record from August, when 106 migrants crossed to the UK on what was dubbed a ‘mega dinghy’ by media.

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5 d. ago Labour peer who escaped Nazis as a child makes powerful Gaza 'splitting up families' plea

Lord Alf Dubs has pleaded with Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to rip up rules barring students from Gaza from bringing spouses and children to the UK, saying it will tear families apart

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6 d. ago Shabana Mahmood vows reforms to law to prove migrants contribute to society

Ministers are looking at how to make sure indefinite leave to remain is linked to ‘the wider contribution’ migrants make, the Home Secretary said.

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6 d. ago Truth about 'next deputy Labour leader' Bridget Phillipson's poverty

In the battle to become Labour 's deputy leader, Bridget Phillipson has spoken more than once of her working class roots - growing up on 'a tough street of council houses'.

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