Britain's interior minister on Sunday defended plans to drastically reduce protections for refugees and end automatic benefits for asylum seekers, insisting that irregular migration was "tearing our ...

Shabana Mahmood is set to announce measures aimed at making Britain a less attractive destination for illegal migrants and making it easier to remove them.

Britain has announced plans to carry out the most significant reform of its asylum seeker policies in years, overhauling ...

UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood initiates plan to cut term of refugee status and extend period until asylum seekers can apply to settle permanently, 'illegal migration is dividing our country,' she ...

The high street has seen a number of shop closures in recent years, with supermarkets and banks among the businesses that have been forced to scale back ...

The UK will make refugee status temporary and quadruple the wait for permanent settlement under sweeping changes announced by ...

The parts of the UK fighting back against the practice of jailing people for social media posts have been mapped today.

Britain will drastically reduce protections for refugees and end automatic benefits for asylum seekers, the Labour government announced late Saturday, under new plans aimed at slashing irregular ...

Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, urged the government to rethink its plans, saying they “will not deter ...

The minister said the briefing row that erupted this week was "embarrassing for everyone concerned" as pressure grows on Sir Keir Starmer from the back benches.

Shabana Mahmood defends plans to mimic Denmark's immigration policy, but says she is not creating a "hostile environment" for asylum seekers.