Shabana Mahmood has announced thousands of refugees will be able to come to the UK through a new community sponsorship scheme from October.
Is Britain still short of rapists and murderers?
🚨NEWS: Shabana Mahmood has banned asylum seekers from being housed near schools or nurseries.
Critics have said this means she understands they are a threat but refuses to deport them.
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood ordered a review after two migrant boats reached UK shores without interception, the first such arrivals in over a year
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has defended a controversial early-release scheme that includes killers, rapists and child sex offenders, saying Britain’s prisons are so close to running out of space that the entire criminal justice system risk collapse.
Mahmood said the decision was “unpalatable” but necessary, warning that without sufficient prison capacity, police could ultimately be unable to make arrests and courts could be prevented from holding trials.