The Latest Breaking News from Shabana Mahmood

The Guardian view on Labour’s migration gamble: Denmark is no template

Editorial: Extending settlement waits risks deepening labour shortages while misreading public concern about migration’s economic and demographic realities

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3

‘Too soon to know’ if Middle East war will affect small boat arrivals – experts

Iranians have made up the largest group of small boat arrivals in the UK in recent years.

Evening Standard · Mar 3

Mahmood’s move to make asylum temporary ‘may undermine refugee convention’

Law Society says home secretary’s review of refugee status after 30 months is in tension with UK’s legal obligations

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2

Asylum in UK to be reviewed every 30 months under Home Secretary’s plans

Refugees will need to renew their permission to stay or apply for a visa route like any other legal migrant.

Evening Standard · Mar 1

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs

Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1

Labour anxiety and accusations after big shift in Muslim vote to Greens

PM criticises ‘sectarian politics’ in byelection but party may fear Greens’ nascent leftwing political machine

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28

Home Secretary to warn Labour to resist leftward shift after by-election loss

The result of Thursday’s poll saw Labour come third behind Zack Polanski’s Greens and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the seat.

Evening Standard · Feb 28

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat

Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

The Guardian - UK · Feb 27

Shabana Mahmood to introduce legislation on migration to take on Reform

The Home Secretary this week visited Denmark which has one of the toughest asylum and immigration systems in Europe.

Evening Standard · Feb 27

Shabana Mahmood to launch fresh asylum crackdown to take on Farage’s Reform

The home secretary’s move comes in defiance of demands by Labour MPs for the party to lurch to the left in the wake of the humiliating defeat to the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election

The Independent UK · Feb 27