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‘Repugnant’ or necessary? The new asylum rules

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:27:50
Publish Date: 2025-11-18 01:01:00
Description:

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood announced sweeping changes to the asylum rules yesterday; the largest overhaul since the Second World War. The changes have apparently been inspired by Denmark but will they work or are they - as one Labour MP said - ‘repugnant’?


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Guests: 

  • Ben Clathworthy, Whitehall editor, The Times.
  • Fraser Nelson, columnist, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Olivia Case, Micaela Arneson, Harry Stott. 

Read more: Shabana Mahmood speech: Asylum policy to cope with ‘volatile’ world

Further listening: Doomed to fail? Labour’s asylum u-turn

Clips: Sky, Times Radio, parliamentlive.tv.

Photo: Andrew Fox for The Sunday Times.

Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com 


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