Shabana Mahmood: “I understand public feeling and I am frustrated at seeing people who are getting away with breaking our laws.”

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

We do absolutely have to do more as a Government and as a society to know exactly what the boundaries are between passionate, contested, fierce debate... and then behaviour that spills into threats and harassment.

The 1971 Act provided protections for long-term UK residents but should not be used as a bar against removal in cases like that of Shabir Ahmed.

On the subject of deporting foreign criminals, the government intends to bring forward an amendment to this bill in response to the widely-reported case of the vile grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed.