Shabana Mahmood: “I will leave no stone unturned to keep our country safe.”

Instead, a fair asylum system must be grounded in controlled, safe and legal asylum.

That’s why we’re doubling the number of NCA officers, because we know that this is the work we need to do in order to secure our border.

A little over two years into office and the asylum backlog is down, the number of asylum seekers in hotels is falling, illegal working arrests are at record levels, and deportations and returns are up markedly.

It has been settled government policy since last summer, in fact, that the qualifying period will rise from five years to ten.