Is this Labour’s hostile environment?

这是对工党的敌意环境吗?

Today in Focus

2025-11-19

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Shabana Mahmood’s new immigration plans have been welcomed by Tommy Robinson. Jessica Elgot explains why. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • Today, Labour's Tommy Robinson approved asylum overhaul.

  • Just before we start, quick warning, there is some racist language in this episode.

  • Here's the thing,

  • we weren't actually planning on making an episode today about Labour's asylum overhaul.

  • We kind of felt that we'd covered that in Monday's episode about how the Home Secretary,

  • Shabana Mahmoud,

  • had drawn inspiration from Denmark,

  • where a centre-left government has implemented some of Europe's toughest immigration policies.

  • And then we listened to Mahmoud's speech in Parliament on Monday night and thought,

  • wow, this is even more extreme than we were expecting.

  • Thank you very much Madam Deputy Speaker with your permission.

  • I will make a statement about how we restore order and control to our borders.

  • I do so as this government publishes the most significant reform to our migration system in modern times.

  • She wasn't wrong.

  • To the British public who foot the bill, the system feels out of control and unfair.

  • It feels that way because it is.

  • The pace and scale of change...

  • Mamoud announced what she headlined, restoring order and control.

  • A new approach to migration.

  • Its goals are twofold.