US EditionUK Government Defends Asylum Crackdown, PM Starmer Under Pressure From Far Right
Reforms include temporary refugee status, revoking guaranteed asylum support, safe legal routes, and AI age checks amid 39,075 arrivals so far this year, Home Office data shows.
- On Monday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will set out a package of asylum reforms in the House of Commons, billed as the largest overhaul in modern times and aimed at easing removals and reducing illegal migration.
- Ms Mahmood warned illegal migration is causing huge divides across Britain and framed the reforms as a moral mission to retain public consent for the asylum system.
- Ministers will revoke the statutory duty to provide asylum-seeker support, ending guaranteed housing and weekly allowances, and those able to work who do not may be denied benefits as the package includes AI facial age-estimate technology and new judicial priorities.
- Facing pressure from backbenchers, the Home Secretary said consent for helping asylum seekers will fall apart if the Government does not do more and ministers must persuade people nationwide.
- Some 39,075 people have arrived in the UK so far this year, passing 2024 and 2023 totals, and ministers say they took inspiration from Denmark's government for safe and legal routes.
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UK government poised to overhaul its asylum system as a political storm brews over migration
The British government plans to tighten its asylum system, following Denmark's model, to reduce immigration and address the political storm over migrants crossing the English Channel.
UK government defends asylum crackdown, PM Starmer under pressure from far right
Britain's interior minister on Sunday defended plans to drastically reduce protections for refugees and end automatic benefits for asylum seekers, insisting that irregular migration was "tearing our country apart". The measures, modelled on Denmark's strict asylum system, aim to stop thousands of migrants from arriving in England from northern France on small boats -- crossings that are fuelling support for the anti-immigrant Reform UK party. Bu…
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Consent for asylum system ‘could fall apart if illegal migration not tackled’
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is due to set out reforms to the asylum system on Monday.
For months now, right-wing populist Nigel Farage has been driving the Labour government on the issue of migration. Now, the Interior Minister is announcing a change of course.
U.K. to cut protections for refugees under asylum ‘overhaul’
Britain will drastically reduce protections for refugees and end automatic benefits for asylum seekers, the Labour government announced late Saturday, under new plans aimed at slashing irregular immigration and countering the hard-right.
The left government in London is increasingly under pressure from the reform party of Nigel Farage. Now the British asylum laws are to be tightened massively. Also naturalisations become significantly more difficult. This post Illegal migration Great Britain announces massive tightening of asylum laws has been published on Young Freedom.
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