Shabana Mahmood will announce new laws on Thursday to make her Denmark-style asylum reforms a reality, including legislation allowing the Home Office to evict migrants from asylum hotels from June, as first revealed by The i Paper in January.
But the Home Secretary is coming under pressure to water down her hardline policies from MPs in the wake of the Gorton and Denton by-election loss as Labour pivots towards shoring up its left-wing base, rather than try to attract Reform UK voters.
In a major speech Mahmood will insist “Labour values” are “at the heart” of her migration reforms.
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The plans will also set up a potential battle with Labour MPs who are threatening a revolt over some of the toughest measures amid signs of jitters in Sir Keir Starmer’s team about whether or not to shift the Government’s political strategy as the party faces new threats from the left.
