Shabana Mahmood Announces New Scheme to Pay Failed Asylum Seeker Families up to £40k to leave UK

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Labour should not be tempted to become “more Green” or “more Reform” on its migration policy, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said, while admitting that it is a “difficult time” for her party.

Ms Mahmood said her party’s identity is being “bitterly” contested, but insisted that Labour values are at the heart of her “firm but fair” migration reforms.

In a speech at the centre-left think tank IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) on Thursday, she outlined the case for a position between Reform leader Nigel Farage’s “nightmare pulling up the drawbridge and shutting out the world” and Green Party leader Zack Polanski’s “fairytale of open borders”.

The Home Secretary faces a backbench revolt over the plans, which include people granted asylum in the UK having their refugee status made temporary and subject to review every 30 months.

Ms Mahmood also announced that a small number of failed asylum seekers will be offered an “increased incentive payment” of £10,000 per person and up to £40,000 per family to leave Britain under a pilot scheme.

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