Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a new crackdown on the asylum system Sky News/APShabana Mahmood’s new plans to tough up the British asylum system have been criticised for being “cruel” – and for appealing to the “far right”. “I can see that illegal migration is causing division across our country,” she told Sky News. “People are angry about something that is real.”'Our illegal migration system is broken.' @ShabanaMahmood denies that the govt’s efforts to tackle illegal migration are 'racist'. The party’s home affairs spokesperson Max Wilkinson said “some of the rhetoric” around asylum seekers has made him “a little bit uncomfortable”.
