Shabana Mahmood: “The appearance of differential treatment before the law is particularly corrosive”

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.

As soon as more information is available that is capable of being shared without compromising any future trial process, that will be done.

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.

There is nothing fair about a system that is based upon uncontrolled, unsafe and illegal routes into this country.