Last week, she announced plans to tighten its asylum system in a series of sweeping changes that aim to reduce immigration and quell the political storm over migrants making the small boat crossings across the Channel without authorization.
U.K. government welcomes sharp fall in net migration but says more needs to be done
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Mahmood said it was a moral mission to control the borders and reunite a divided country on the flashpoint issue that has helped fuel the rise of the hard-right Reform UK Party, though as the daughter of migrants she denied the ruling center-left Labour Party was adopting far-right talking points.
U.K. government poised to overhaul its asylum system as a political storm brews over migration
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