Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs

Alf Dubs has been described as the ‘conscience of the Labour movement’. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Shabana Mahmood should be moved out of the Home Office and her asylum policies of “performative cruelty” ripped up by Andy Burnham’s administration, Alf Dubs has said.

The veteran Labour peer, who came to the UK aged six in 1939 fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, said the home secretary’s talents “would be better used elsewhere in the cabinet”.