US EditionMinister urges Labour MPs to ‘look closely’ at asylum plan amid backbench outcry
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood plans reforms to tighten asylum rules, restrict appeals, and introduce deportation measures inspired by Denmark, where 46% of ordered removals are voluntary.
- Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, will announce measures to combat illegal migration, including a 20-year wait for asylum seekers to settle and mandatory reviews of refugee status every two years.
- The new asylum laws will allow deportations if home countries are deemed safe and have been condemned by critics, including Labour MPs, who argue that they align with far-right rhetoric.
- Critics express concerns that the reforms may not garner sufficient support and could face legal challenges, negatively impacting communities.
- Mahmood emphasizes the necessity of reforms to restore public trust in the asylum system, noting rising frustration over illegal migration as a critical issue.
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The British Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood presents radical reforms in the asylum policy following the example of Denmark. Parts of the right-wing opposition praise them – quite differently from the left wing of their own party.
The British Government has announced an intensification of its asylum policy along the lines of Denmark.
The Labour government faces a torrent of criticism after revealing a major reform of asylum policy, inspired in part by the Danish model. While Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood defends a text intended to "restore order", humanitarian organisations denounce an unprecedented security shift.
Can Labour MPs stomach Mahmood’s Denmark daydreaming?
In the Commons yesterday evening Shabana Mahmood took question after question – most probably more aptly classified as statements – from Labour MPs critiquing her new immigration proposals. Cat Eccles, Abtisam Mohamed, Sarah Owen, Stella Creasy, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Olivia Blake, John McDonell, Rachael Maskell, Nadia Whittome, Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Steve Witherden and Tony Vaughan all sat on the green benches ready to criticise the Home …
‘We will remove people we have not removed before, including families’ – UK in radical rewrite of asylum rights
UK home secretary Shabana Mahmood has said her country was targeted by people “asylum-shopping” around Europe as she faced the prospect of a backbench revolt against plans to toughen up Britain’s immigration system.
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