Shabana Mahmood: “The 1971 Act provided protections for long-term UK residents but should not be used as a bar against removal in cases…”

Small boats numbers are now falling but we are not complacent and there is more we must do.

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.

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.

Labour was taking a 'vital step' in efforts to control the UK’s borders