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The home secretary has defended her plans for asylum reform after one backbencher said she was mimicking Donald Trump and another claimed it could lead to a Windrush-style scandal.
Shabana Mahmood announced her plans on Thursday, including an end to permanent refugee status and the removal of government support from asylum seekers who are deemed not to need it or who break the law.
This is about immigration enforcement and it’s about being in a process where you are able to enforce your rules.
If you don’t do that, the flip side is you just end up picking up the tab for hundreds of families, hundreds of thousands of pounds per family every single year.
Otherwise you might as well say to everybody, there’s no rules enforced at all. It’s an open border situation. And I don’t think that has public support either.
I don’t recognise those reports and I have to say I think it is a travesty that any anyone should report from a National Security Council... because of course it puts British lives at risk and I hope that is properly investigated.
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