Mahmood aims to limit Migrants’ “right to family life”
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Rushed proposals to clampdown on immigration are likely to be put to Parliament next week; they are part of a draconian set and “(t)he planned rules would apply retrospectively to claimants who are already in the UK – a move that prompted a backlash from as many as 100 Labour MPs including Angela Rayner, who said it was unfair and un-British.”
It seems that one aspect of proposed “reform” to the immigration laws, doubling of time needed before Indefinite Leave to Remain becomes possible is not being included in this Bill the terms of which are like to impact children and families as well as removing elements of independence in the process. When that legislation is presented it could impact two million people who are already living and working in Britain – many with families here too
This article was originally published by The Guardian on Wed 24 Jun 2026. Read the original here.
Shabana Mahmood’s immigration and asylum bill to go before MPs next week
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I was appalled when our Prime Minister Starmer not only failed to take the unique and priceless opportunity afforded to him as the new PM, to educate, inform and update the UK about both basic and refugee immigration, including the current alarmingly low net total, which I believe is NOT widely known, and then ape Farages divisive policies and language on the subject!
A few months in, Mahmoods appointment to home secretary was like a sucker punch to the gut.
A Pritti Patel/Suella Braverman style drawbridge puller, her appointment must delight Reform but has turned me, a lifelong Labour voter, Green.
When I read that Palestinian land and homes in the occupied West Bank were openly promoted to Jews at a homebuying conference in a London synagogue, I finally wanted Starmer out. I’m desperately ashamed of UK complicity in the current Nakba in PALESTINE, by proxy to Isreal.
Not only are London anti-genocide protest marches in support of Palestinian freedom under threat from our LABOUR government, on the grounds that British Jews (subjectively) feel threatened by the truth (presumably it’s scary losing ), a counter RALLY unnecessarily but deliberately planned on the SAME date, actually has Mahmoods permission to go ahead, despite the organiser, Tommy Robinson’s, well documented history of disruptive xenophobic racist fascism.
Contrast this permission with the last minute revocation of TYT journalist Cenk Yugur’s UK visa because he is “not conducive to the public good” and likely to criticise Israeli terrorism and war crimes in the “wrong way”. I NEVER thought the UK would have a government that suppresses free speech.
Unbelievably we are in the odious position of living under a LABOUR government willing to go down in history as a civil rights destroyer, bizarrely our government has obediently swallowed Tory/Reform rhetoric on immigrants (anyone remember Teresa May …
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How hypocritical, herself being from parents who came to the UK she would treat others so poorly.
When the UK needed overseas workers after the war, it was them that helped build the economy!
There are echoes of ICE where families and children are separated.
This ‘immigrant’ bandwagon is a deadly disease based on false ideology of Nationalism. They still see black and brown people as immigrants rather than equal human beings.
The hypocrisy is bemusing.
It reminds me of Yolande Lopes art/protest – ‘Who you calling immigrant, pilgrim?’
Just two questions for Ms Mahmood;
How did your parents get to the UK?
WHY did they come to the UK?
Surprised she has not been asked this in Parliament or by the media.