Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Summary
Alf Dubs, a Labour peer and refugee advocate, says Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood should leave her post so a new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, can change asylum policies. Dubs criticizes current plans that tighten asylum rules and says they treat children and refugees unfairly.Key Facts
- Alf Dubs fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia as a child and came to the UK on the Kindertransport train.
- Dubs wants Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood removed from her role in the Home Office.
- He calls Mahmood’s asylum policies “performative cruelty” and says they do not align with Labour values.
- Andy Burnham is expected to become Prime Minister soon and lead a new approach to asylum and immigration policy.
- Current plans include changes to "indefinite leave to remain" that may apply to people who followed the rules.
- Dubs opposes suspending family reunion visas and the plan to handcuff or deport sick children.
- He says the UK should keep its promise under the 1951 refugee convention and protect human rights.
- Dubs urges Labour to balance border control with compassion and fairness for refugees and asylum seekers.
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