Home secretary indicates Whitehall talks about returns programme, a move that would shock humanitarian groups Shabana Mahmood has refused to rule out sending rejected Afghan asylum seekers back to the ...

With her four-letter-word riposte to a heckler, the home secretary played the victim and cynically puts the blame for her immigration plans on liberals If all you know about Shabana Mahmood’s ...

When District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood unseated incumbent democratic socialist Dean Preston in 2024, San Francisco leftists mourned. With Mahmood, those efforts won. The newcomer gained a seat in ...

Exclusive: Analysis of government figures indicates public finances will gain £600m not £10bn if migrants’ access to benefits is reduced Shabana Mahmood’s migration changes are expected to save just ...

Cutting period of protection from five years to 30 months is a risk to social cohesion, say bishops, rabbis and imam Full letter: The government must rethink its settlement and citizenship reforms ...

At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work. Since his days as a scholar in Tanzania in ...

The UK’s asylum system is being overhauled. The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has laid out a series of reforms that will affect refugees seeking safety in Britain. Mahmood argues that these changes ...

Some of the home secretary’s major overhauls are already in place such as the 30-month review for refugee protections Shabana Mahmood accused of mimicking Trump as she announces asylum plans Shabana ...

Shabana Mahmood has defended her plans for forced deportation of children under her new asylum rules. The home secretary has said the government is consulting on precisely how the removal of families ...

The home secretary has admitted the politics of migration is "difficult" for Labour as she announced measures to tighten Britain's asylum system. Shabana Mahmood outlined major reforms which she said ...

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