Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will this afternoon announce big reforms to the UK’s asylum policy – including fast-tracking illegal migrant deportations, changes to human rights law and plans to stop granting visas from certain African countries if their governments don’t co-operate on immigration. While Mahmoud’s tough talk will go down well with voters concerned about Britain’s borders, there are concerns that her proposals may be torpedoed by some of her own rather sceptical colleagues. Mr S has the full list of Labour MPs attacking the Home Secretary’s migration plans below…

Tony Vaughan, MP for Folkestone and Hythe: ‘These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning… The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse

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