US EditionMinister urges Labour MPs to ‘look closely’ at asylum plan amid backbench outcry
The UK plans a Denmark-style asylum system overhaul including temporary refugee status and 20-year waits for settlement amid Labour MPs' sharp criticism.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced plans for significant changes to the UK's asylum system amid backlash from Labour MPs over the proposals.
- The reforms include temporary refugee status with regular reviews and potential bans on countries failing to accept deported migrants, including Angola, Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Labour MPs, including Tony Vaughan, criticized the measures, arguing they promote divisiveness and inadequate support for genuine refugees.
- The government plans to impose visa bans on countries obstructing deportations, including Angola, Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, if cooperation does not improve.
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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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