Man who heckled Shabana Mahmood dismisses ‘laughable’ white liberal claim

Joe said: ‘She’s calling me, a person of colour, a white liberal. But what she’s doing is incredibly illiberal.’ Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

A protester who heckled Shabana Mahmood said he came to the UK as a child from Malaysia, describing the home secretary’s claim that he was a “white liberal” as “laughable”.

Joe, 32, who did not wish to give his last name, migrated from Malaysia at the age of four with his family. He said the home secretary’s proposed immigration rule changes would have left him, and thousands of children like him, in limbo.