1 week ago Shabana Mahmood announces ban on taxi use for asylum seeker medical trips

The Home Secretary said the Government is working with providers to introduce alternatives.

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2 w. ago Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik

‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straightOver the past couple of weeks, Shabana Mahmood has launched not only her new asylum crackdown policy, but also her “story”. The two are inseparable: her story justifies the crackdown. It moralises the crackdown. And it silences criticism of the crackdown. Sold as an origin story from within an immigrant and racialised experience, the purpose is to imbue her politics with sacred authenticity – the credibility of the first person. It is clever and effective. It is cynical and disgraceful.“I am the child of immigrants” is how Mahmood now starts her fable. Immigrants who came here legally. She goes on to tell us that immigration is tearing this country apart, and proposes policies that mean UK-born children, who have known no life anywhere else, will be deported. As she launches policies that will leave refugees homeless and without support, tear families apa...

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2 w. ago The UK is set to impose some of Europe’s toughest asylum laws – but how does it really compare to the continent?

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood is carrying out one of the largest reforms to the asylum system the UK has ever seen. But is the overhaul really proportionate to the numbers arriving on UK shores? Alex Croft reports

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2 w. ago Anas Sarwar praises 'brave' Shabana Mahmood over immigration and asylum crackdown

The Scottish Labour leader said action is needed to fix the "broken" immigration system.

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2 w. ago The UK is set to impose some of Europe’s toughest asylum laws

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood is carrying out one of the largest reforms to the asylum system the UK has ever seen. But is the overhaul really proportionate to the numbers arriving on UK shores? Alex Croft reports

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3 w. ago Albanian PM accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘ethnic stereotyping’’ in asylum reforms

Edi Rama was furious that Ms Mahmood had singled out 700 Albanian families to justify ending the right to family reunions

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3 w. ago Children born in Britain to refugee parents will face deportation under Shabana Mahmood's asylum overhaul

Children born in the UK to refugees and those who have no right to stay would face deportation under plans from Shabana Mahmood - because Britain does not recognise birthright citizenship.

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3 w. ago Labour rebels warn Shabana Mahmood not to 'appease the electorate' on asylum

Backbench anger over plans to crack down on asylum continued to grow, despite warnings that failure to fix the 'broken' system could see public support for harbouring refugees collapse.

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3 w. ago Labour peer accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘using children as a weapon’ in asylum reforms

Lord Alf Dubs, who fled from the Nazis as a child refuge, described the government’s proposals as ‘shabby’ after the Home Office said it could deport children of failed asylum seekers

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3 w. ago Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies

Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ peopleShabana Mahmood is facing demands for compassion and clarity after it emerged that only a “few hundred” asylum seekers would initially be permitted to come to the UK under three new schemes for refugees.The home secretary had justified a series of hardline policies – such as the deportation of families and the confiscation of assets from claimants – by saying she would also open the “safe and legal” routes for “genuine” claimants. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Warning over ‘dangerous brain drain’ as number of Britons leaving UK revealed

UK net migration reached a new record high, new figures show, as Labour home secretary Shabana Mahmood comes under fire over asylum crackdown

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3 w. ago Daily Mail readers back Shabana Mahmood's migrant crackdown as 90% approve of her bid to overhaul human rights laws and the asylum system

Out of more than 18,000 votes, 88 per cent of Daily Mail readers replied 'yes' to the question: 'Do you support Shabana Mahmood's proposed asylum reforms?' and 12 per cent said 'no'.

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3 w. ago What are the changes in Shabana Mahmood’s asylum crackdown – and how serious is Labour backlash?

Inspired by Denmark’s strict system on asylum seekers, Shabana Mahmood has unveiled her own version to the Commons – but what will it mean, and what has the reaction been to it so far?

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3 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Are Labour right to offer asylum seekers more than £3,000 to leave Britain?

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood unveiled a series of controversial asylum reforms yesterday, which came under fire from many within her own party.

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3 w. ago Number of Britons leaving UK far higher than previously thought

UK net migration reached a new record high, new figures show, as Labour home secretary Shabana Mahmood comes under fire over asylum crackdown

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3 w. ago Is Shabana Mahmood’s plan to seize the jewels of asylum seekers a joke? | Zoe Williams

The home secretary’s idea makes her sound so much like a cartoon villain that I initially assumed it couldn’t be true ...You can’t react to every piece of flotsam on the unending tide of nastiness that emanates from Westminster on the subject of immigration, or you’ll start to feel like you’re the idiot. Are we surprised that a Labour home secretary would want to remove any prospect of permanent citizenship for all refugees, thereby ending Britain’s standing as a place of sanctuary? Petty, vindictive, counterproductive, narrow-minded, yes, but you could hardly call this surprising.But, finally, a policy arrived that was so out of the normal run of things that I assumed it was a joke – a piece of satire, floated on X by some member of the wokerati, to make Shabana Mahmood sound truly heinous. Apparently, she wanted to seize the jewellery and other valuables to pay for their accommodation.Deploying exaggeration to underscore how much like a cartoon villain a politician sounds is a lit...

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3 w. ago Shabana Mahmood swears in House of Commons while defending asylum crackdown

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood swore in the House of Commons as she defended her proposed major overhaul of the asylum system.

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3 w. ago Labour peer accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘using children as a weapon’ in her asylum crackdown

Comes as home secretary tells Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson to 'sod off'

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3 w. ago Labour disintegrates on immigration as gleeful Greens surge in the polls and dozens of Starmer's MPs turn on him

Dozens of backbenchers look set to try to block Shabana Mahmood's plans despite her pleading that they are the only way to restore public faith and stop Reform.

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3 w. ago Shabana Mahmood says Nigel Farage can 'sod off' as she defends sweeping asylum system reforms

The Home Secretary has hit back at Nigel Farage after he suggested her plan to shake up the asylum system was her ‘audition to join Reform’

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