US EditionBritain reviews human rights laws in major shake-up of asylum policy
The UK plans to cut refugee status duration, speed up removals, and require asylum seekers to contribute financially, with 111,084 applications recorded in the past year, the highest on record.
- On Monday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will announce sweeping asylum reforms in the House of Commons, described as the most radical overhaul of the UK's asylum system in modern times.
- Rising Channel crossings — almost 40,000 people in 2025 — have shaped the debate, while public concern and rising asylum claims boosted support for Reform UK.
- The proposals would rewrite how Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights is applied by limiting family life protections to immediate family, and asylum appeals would be restricted to a single route with expedited removals for weak cases.
- A backbench outcry has already emerged as Labour backbench MPs warned of revolt and labelled the plans 'performative cruelty', while borders minister Alex Norris urged patience to examine the package closely.
- Modelled on Denmark, the plans pair tighter removals with new safe legal routes and threaten visa bans on Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with refugee status reviewed every 30 months and 20 years before settled status.
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UK to overhaul asylum policy – will the new measures work?
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Will the "Unite the Kingdom" event, held on 13 September, have weighed in the balance? On Monday 17 November, the Minister of the Interior, Shabana Mahmood, detailed the provisions of the Act... Read the article Migration policy: the United Kingdom is inspired by Denmark, France under pressure appeared first on current values.
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Badenoch offers Tory support for Mahmood’s asylum plans as Labour rebel MPs brand them cruel and unworkable “Shabana Mahmood turned on liberal critics of her asylum reforms, telling them she knew how divisive migration was because she had been called a “f—ing P—”. The Home Secretary gave a passionate defence of her plans to reform Britain’s “broken” asylum system in the face of criticism from some 20 Labour MPs, Greens and a Liberal Democrat spo…
Labour peer who fled Nazis as child hits out at asylum system shake-up - 'wrong direction' - The Mirror
Lord Alf Dubs said the changes unveiled by the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Monday, which has also caused unease among Labour MPs, will make the UK less welcome
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