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Inspired by Denmark’s strict system on asylum seekers, Shabana Mahmood has unveiled her own version to the Commons - but what will it mean, and what has the reaction been to it so far?

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“If we fail to deal with this crisis, we will draw more people down a path that starts with anger and ends in hatred,” declared home secretary Shabana Mahmood, after her overhaul of asylum policy in the UK was unveiled.