Shabana Mahmood tells MPs families are currently not being removed "even when we know their home country is perfectly safe".

Shabana Mahmood will lay out a series of reforms to the asylum system in the House of Commons on Monday aimed at making Britain a less attractive destination for illegal migrants, ...

Sir Keir Starmer has completed his reshuffle of junior ministerial ranks as the home secretary is hit with an immediate crisis after Channel crossings hit 30,000. The prime minister completed the ...

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Hotels will continue to be used to house asylum seekers for four more years, the Home Office’s top civil servant has estimated. Sir Matthew Rycroft, the Home Office’s permanent secretary, told MPs ...