The Latest Breaking News from Shabana Mahmood

Number of people who say Britons must be ‘born British’ is rising, study shows

Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity

The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2025

Who is Alaa Abd El-Fattah? The British-Egyptian activist facing calls to be stripped of citizenship

The freed Egyptian dissident is at the centre of a row over past social media posts

Evening Standard · Dec 29, 2025

What did Alaa Abd el-Fattah say in past social media posts and why is there a backlash?

British-Egyptian activist has apologised over tweets appearing to condone violence against Zionists and police

The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2025

Angola and Namibia agree to take back illegal migrants after visa ban threat

Shabana Mahmood earlier warned she could stop issuing visas to foreign nationals from certain countries

The Independent UK · Dec 27, 2025

Starmer needs to tell a better Christmas story about Labour

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If Labour is to avoid catastrophe in the May local elections, the prime minister and his cabinet need to pull together and deliver both action and good news

The Independent UK · Dec 25, 2025

Deputy leader Lucy Powell says Labour must ‘stick to manifesto’ over EU customs union, in implicit rebuke to Streeting – as it happened

No 10 has largely played down health secretary’s comments

The Guardian - UK · Dec 23, 2025

Non-crime hate incidents ‘to be scrapped’ in favour of ‘common sense’

The chairman of the College of Policing said that the system would be ‘scrapped and replaced with a completely different system’

The Independent UK · Dec 23, 2025

UK asylum seekers not widely abusing modern slavery rules, report finds

Exclusive: Thinktank’s findings undermine successive home secretaries’ statements about misuse of system in England and Wales

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2025

Love Actually’s Hugh Grant and Richard Curtis back Red Cross’s family reunion campaign

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has axed the refugee family reunion visa route - with loved ones only able to come to the UK if the sponsor is on a work or study visas

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2025

UK sex offenders may have to tell police about social media and dating accounts

Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood plans to ‘use full power of the state’ to curb rise in targeted attacks using websites

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2025