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Consent for helping asylum seekers restart their lives in the UK will fall apart if the Government does not do more to tackle illegal migration, Shabana Mahmood has said.

The Home Secretary also insisted she saw her attempts to overhaul the asylum system as part of a “moral mission” aimed at preventing division in the country.

Ms Mahmood will set out reforms to the UK’s asylum system, how it decides to grant sanctuary to those fleeing conflict and hardship abroad, in the House of Commons on Monday.

Billed as the largest overhaul of its kind in modern times, the packa

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