Plans to fast-track the deportation of illegal migrants as part of sweeping reforms of the UK’s asylum policy are to be announced by Home Secretary: the very British sounding Shabana Mahmood.
In a statement to MPs later she will outline plans to end multiple appeals against removal and for an overhaul of legislation on human rights law.
For those granted asylum they will only be given it on a temporary basis and will be returned home if their country is at any time deemed safe. They will have to wait 20 years to apply to settle permanently. Mahmood will also say the UK will stop granting visas to people from three African countries if their governments do not improve co-operation on removals of illegal migrants.
Surely it has not escaped us all that the name Shabana Mahmood is hardly Catherine Smith, is it? Can this woman really be the champion of protecting Britain’s borders?
She is doing more than most.
