Delivering control and compassion: Reflections on the home secretary's speech on immigration reform (opens in new tab)

Since taking office in September, Shabana Mahmood has announced sweeping reforms to the asylum system, launched a major consultation on settlement, and begun removals under the UK’s ‘one-in, one-out’ deal with France. Today she gave a major speech at IPPR where she sought to make a progressive case for her reform agenda.The home secretary’s argument is that the UK needs an immigration system which is controlled and compassionate – which, in her words, neither “throws open the borders” nor “pu...