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Mahmood says she is the \u201cchild of migrants\u201d and rejects that dealing with illegal migration is engaging with far-right talking points.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis is a moral mission for me because I can see that illegal migration is tearing our country apart,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is dividing communities, people can see huge pressure in their communities and they can also see a system that is broken and where people are able to flout the rules, abuse the system and get away with it.<\/p>\n \u201cI am not willing to stand by a pretend there isn\u2019t a problem, when I know there is one, and then suggest that any solution to that cannot work because I believe they can.\u201d<\/p>\n She says she knows she has to persuade people across the country, and in parliament, that the government\u2019s reforms can work in this area.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a004.47 EST<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n <\/span>Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Home secretary Shabana Mahmood said she rejects that dealing with illegal migration is engaging with far-right talking points and said the issue is \u201ctearing this country apart\u201d.<\/strong> \u201cThis is a moral mission for me because I can see that illegal migration is tearing our country apart,\u201d she says. \u201cIt is dividing communities, people can see huge pressure in their communities and they can also see a system that is broken and where people are able to flout the rules, abuse the system and get away with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Mahmood said she has the \u201cmisfortune\u201d of looking at the way people smugglers are advertising and selling the \u201cgenerosity\u201d of Britain and that is driving people to get on small boats. <\/strong>\u201cIt is important that we send a signal,\u201d she said, adding that she was been working with other European countries.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The government is going to make refugee status temporary and up for review every two-and-a-half years, Mahmood told Sky News. <\/strong>\u201cThat is changing the way that we look at refugee status,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The home secretary said that the government will create more \u201csafe routes\u201d for people to seek asylum in the UK as a way of stopping small boats. <\/strong>Asked about her own heritage, Mahmood said her parents came to Britain legally in the late 1960s and that is is \u201ca moral mission\u201d for her.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said 10,000 people have crossed the channel illegally in the 75 days since Mahmood became home secretary.<\/strong> He said Labour made a \u201chuge mistake\u201d in cancelling the Rwanda scheme with no alternative and says the UK must leave the ECHR.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Philp said the Tories will \u201csupport sensible steps\u201d to deal with the asylum crisis but says Labour\u2019s approach consists of \u201csmall steps in the right direction\u201d and \u201cgimmicks\u201d. <\/strong>Speaking to Trevor Phillips on Sky News, he said people who arrive illegally should not ever be granted asylum and ought to be removed within a week of arrival.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Wes Streeting has been accused of taking a \u201cchaotic and incoherent approach\u201d to reforming the NHS, which makes it unlikely the government will hit its own targets, according to a damning report by the Institute for Government (IfG). <\/strong>The report praises elements of how the health secretary has managed the health service in his first year in office, including improving performance and staff retention in hospitals.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has refused to rule out a return to frontline politics and called for party unity, condemning recent Labour infighting as \u201carrogant tittle tattle\u201d. <\/strong>Speaking to the Daily Mirror during a constituency visit to a care centre, Rayner said recent reports of anonymous briefings and speculation over possible leadership manoeuvring was detached from the issues affecting everyday people.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Nature is not a blocker to housing growth, an inquiry by MPs has found, in direct conflict with claims made by ministers. <\/strong>Toby Perkins, the Labour chair of the environmental audit committee, said nature was being scapegoated, and that rather than being a block to growth, it was necessary for building resilient towns and neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Britain\u2019s budget watchdog is in danger of strangling growth and should be modernised to ditch its \u201chardwired\u201d support for austerity economics, the TUC has warned. <\/strong>Less than two weeks before Rachel Reeves\u2019s autumn budget, the trade union umbrella group said that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was at risk of being a \u201cstraitjacket\u201d on growth in living standards.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The business secretary, Peter Kyle, has backed a shift to cleaner electric arc technology at the state-controlled British Steel plant, raising questions about the future of the UK\u2019s last remaining blast furnaces. <\/strong>Kyle said the government was \u201ckeen to see that transition happen\u201d, as he works on a new steel strategy, which is expected to be published in December.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n ShareJamie Grierson<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI know whenever I come back here next,\u201d Nigel Farage told a jubilant crowd of hundreds in a leisure centre in Redruth, \u201cReform UK will become a dominant force, not just in Cornwall politics, but in British politics.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n That was in February and when the local elections arrived three months later it appeared Farage\u2019s prophecy was in part coming true \u2013 Reform took 28 seats on Cornwall council, the highest number of any party.<\/p>\n But during his speech at Carn Brea leisure centre, Farage also warned his rapturous supporters \u201cwe have to convert theory into reality\u201d \u2013 and reality in Cornwall is now biting.<\/p>\n Six months on from the local elections \u2013 after which Reform was unable to form an administration, leaving the Liberal Democrats and independents to set up a ruling coalition \u2013 the party\u2019s presence in the county is in disarray following weeks of resignations, suspensions and infighting that mean Reform UK no longer holds the highest number of seats in the authority.<\/p>\n Critics say that along with the chaos in the Reform-led council of Kent, the farcical scenes in Cornwall, where Reform act as the official opposition are further evidence that the party is not capable of delivering beyond a protest vote.<\/p>\n ShareJasper Jolly<\/span><\/p>\n The business secretary, Peter Kyle, has backed a shift to cleaner electric arc technology at the state-controlled British Steel plant, raising questions about the future of the UK\u2019s last remaining blast furnaces.<\/strong><\/p>\n Kyle said the government was \u201ckeen to see that transition happen\u201d, as he works on a new steel strategy, which is expected to be published in December.<\/p>\n A shift to electric arc furnaces at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, would secure the future of steel production at the plant \u2013 under emergency state control since April \u2013 as the UK tries to meet its target of net zero carbon emissions.<\/p>\n However, it would also raise doubts about the fate of blast furnaces that employ thousands of people, and the UK government\u2019s previous pledges to preserve Britain\u2019s primary steelmaking ability, producing steel from iron ore.<\/p>\n When the government recalled parliament in April to take control of British Steel, it feared the site\u2019s Chinese owner, Jingye Steel, was planning to close it permanently, with the loss of as many as 2,700 jobs. Ministers have not yet outlined plans for Scunthorpe\u2019s longer-term future.<\/p>\n ShareRichard Partington<\/span><\/p>\n Britain\u2019s budget watchdog is in danger of strangling growth and should be modernised to ditch its \u201chardwired\u201d support for austerity economics, the TUC has warned.<\/strong><\/p>\n Less than two weeks before Rachel Reeves\u2019s autumn budget, the trade union umbrella group said that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was at risk of being a \u201cstraitjacket\u201d on growth in living standards.<\/p>\n It called for an urgent review into the OBR\u2019s role at the heart of the chancellor\u2019s budget-setting process from the earliest opportunity after her 26 November tax and spending statement.<\/p>\n Paul Nowak, the TUC general secretary, told the Guardian: \u201cI don\u2019t think the chancellor, whatever happens at the budget, wants to go down the road of austerity 2.0.<\/p>\n \u201cBut we\u2019ve got a fiscal watchdog that is effectively hardwired to support that slash-and-burn approach to our public services.\u201d<\/p>\n Reeves is understood to be furious with the OBR over the timing of a revised productivity forecast that is expected to blow a hole in the public finances of up to \u00a320bn at the budget, putting her fiscal rules in danger.<\/p>\n ShareSandra Laville<\/span><\/p>\n Nature is not a blocker to housing growth, an inquiry by MPs has found, in direct conflict with claims made by ministers.<\/strong><\/p>\n Toby Perkins, the Labour chair of the environmental audit committee, said nature was being scapegoated, and that rather than being a block to growth, it was necessary for building resilient towns and neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n In its report on environmental sustainability and housing growth, the cross-party committee challenged the \u201clazy narrative\u201d, which has been promoted by UK government ministers, that nature was a blocker or an inconvenience to delivering housing.<\/p>\n The report said severe skills shortages in ecology, planning and construction would be what made it impossible for the government to deliver on its housebuilding ambitions.<\/p>\n Perkins said: \u201cThe government\u2019s target to build 1.5m homes by the end of this parliament is incredibly ambitious. Achieving it alongside our existing targets on climate and sustainability \u2013 which are set in law \u2013 will require effort on a scale not seen before.<\/p>\n \u201cThat certainly will not be achieved by scapegoating nature, claiming that it is a \u2018blocker\u2019 to housing delivery. We are clear in our report: a healthy environment is essential to building resilient towns and cities. It must not be sidelined.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Kiran Stacey<\/span><\/p>\n Wes Streeting has been accused of taking a \u201cchaotic and incoherent approach\u201d to reforming the NHS, which makes it unlikely the government will hit its own targets, according to a damning report by the Institute for Government (IfG).<\/strong><\/p>\n The report praises elements of how the health secretary has managed the health service in his first year in office, including improving performance and staff retention in hospitals. Thepay settlement he reached with resident doctors last year avoided a winter plagued by NHS strikes<\/p>\n But it also criticises significant aspects of his performance, including the way he handled the abolition of NHS England and his lack of action to stem the exodus of senior GPs.<\/p>\n The findings threaten to puncture Streeting\u2019s reputation after a turbulent week during which he was forced to deny accusations from allies of Keir Starmer that he was lining up a leadership challenge against the prime minister.<\/p>\n Stuart Hoddinott, the IfG\u2019s associate director and the author of the report, said: \u201cThere have been some positive steps: performance is trending slowly upwards in hospitals, there\u2019s been a genuinely large increase in GPs and the rate at which hospital staff are leaving their jobs is the lowest on record outside the pandemic.<\/p>\n \u201cBut that has been undermined by a chaotic and incoherent approach to reforming the service. The announcement of NHS England\u2019s abolition was abysmally handled and management cuts in integrated care boards have been a needless distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s first 500 days in office have been \u201c500 days of failure\u201d, the SNP said.<\/strong><\/p>\n The SNP highlighted issues such as pensioner winter fuel payments, the two-child benefit cap and the proposed \u201cBrit cards\u201d.<\/p>\n SNP Westminster deputy leader Pete Wishart said: \u201cFive hundred days of Starmer has been 500 days of failure.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cFrom robbing pensioners of their winter fuel payments or the pledge to cut energy bills by \u00a3300, just about every promise the Labour party made has been broken.<\/p>\n \u201cVicious infighting has plagued Starmer\u2019s first 500 days and caused utter chaos while the public face an economy in decline and a cost-of-living crisis made worse by the Labour party – it\u2019s no wonder they\u2019re languishing in fourth in the polls.\u201d<\/p>\n Wishart continued: \u201cI doubt bookies will give you odds on Starmer surviving another 500 days, but when he goes it\u2019ll just be another instalment in the depressing tale of broken Brexit Britain.<\/p>\n \u201cIn May, Scots will have the chance to get rid of Starmer, be free of (Reform UK leader Nigel) Farage and have the chance to build a fresh start with independence – that is the prize and after that first 500 days, it\u2019s no wonder more and more Scots are concluding that\u2019s the way to create a wealthier and happier Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has refused to rule out a return to frontline politics and called for party unity, condemning recent Labour infighting as \u201carrogant tittle tattle\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking to the Daily Mirror during a constituency visit to a care centre, Rayner said recent reports of anonymous briefings and speculation over possible leadership manoeuvring was detached from the issues affecting everyday people.<\/p>\n When quizzed if a return to frontline politics may be on the cards, the former deputy Labour leader told the newspaper she had not \u201cgone away\u201d.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cI\u2019m really humbled and I always have been, the people of Ashton-under-Lyne have always supported me.<\/p>\n \u201cThe 10 years that I\u2019ve been in government I\u2019ve had quite a number of front bench positions, and I\u2019ve always brought it back to the people that I was there to represent and having this opportunity now, to be more in the constituency and to champion those views is something that I\u2019m humbled to do and I\u2019m looking forward to the challenge.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of interests like child poverty, the fair pay agreement, and making sure the Employment Rights Bill is carried out in full.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Just turning back to Philp\u2019s earlier interview with Trevor Phillips on Sky News, he accused Labour of \u201cfighting like rats in a sack\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n He claimed the Tories have moved on from party divisions, adding: \u201cThe Labour party are unable to do that. They are fighting like rats in a sack.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve got Keir Starmer briefing against Wes Streeting. You\u2019ve got Angela Rayner sharpening the knives in the background.<\/p>\n \u201cGoodness knows what Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell are both up to.<\/p>\n \u201cInstead of serving the national interest, the Labour government are fighting each other just weeks away from a budget that will unleash enormous tax rises on this country that will drive up unemployment even further.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a005.11 EST<\/p>\n Questioned on the row between Trump and the BBC, Philp says Trump is the \u201cwronged party\u201d and that the BBC should have apologised a lot faster.<\/strong><\/p>\n However, he adds he does not think licence fee payers\u2019 money should go towards compensation for the US president.<\/p>\n \u201cWe all work hard and pay our licence fee, I don\u2019t think sending some of it over to Mar-a-Lago would be a smart thing to do,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n And that concludes the interview.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a004.50 EST<\/p>\n Philp says 10,000 people have crossed the channel illegally in the 75 days since Shabana Mahmood became home secretary.<\/strong><\/p>\n He says Labour made a \u201chuge mistake\u201d in cancelling the Rwanda scheme with no alternative and says the UK must leave the ECHR.<\/p>\n <\/span>BBC handout photo of shadow home secretary Chris Philp, appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.<\/span> Photograph: Jeff Overs\/BBC\/PAShare<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a004.50 EST<\/p>\n Shadow home secretary Chris Philp has made it across Millbank and is now in the chair with Laura Kuenssberg.<\/strong><\/p>\n He immediately launches into why the Tories would be \u201cmuch tougher\u201d on illegal immigration than Labour and repeats that people should be deported within a week of arrival.<\/p>\n \u201cIf someone\u2019s come here legally and gets asylum, they could of course apply for a work visa,\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t think providing people with temporary protection should be a permanent right to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n The only thing that will stop people getting on small boats is the knowledge they will be deported within a week, he says.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Asked about the chaos this week surrounding briefings against cabinet ministers and talk of replacing Keir Starmer as prime minister, the home secretary calls it \u201cunacceptable\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cOne of the difficulties of these sorts of briefings is that is is very difficult to find out exactly who was responsible,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I hope that the individuals who were responsible \u2013 who are now feeling the abject humiliation of what has happened \u2013 that the humiliation will serve as a reminder that they should not indulge in a repeat performance.\u201d<\/p>\n She says Starmer has made it clear that is was not acceptable.<\/p>\n Mahmood says she will not engage in hypothetical questions about a future run as Labour leader and also refuses to suggest what Starmer should say to US president Donald Trump over the BBC.<\/p>\n \u201cThe BBC needs to get its own house in order but its an institution that we absolutely support,\u201d she concludes.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Mahmood says she is the \u201cchild of migrants\u201d and rejects that dealing with illegal migration is engaging with far-right talking points.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis is a moral mission for me because I can see that illegal migration is tearing our country apart,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is dividing communities, people can see huge pressure in their communities and they can also see a system that is broken and where people are able to flout the rules, abuse the system and get away with it.<\/p>\n \u201cI am not willing to stand by a pretend there isn\u2019t a problem, when I know there is one, and then suggest that any solution to that cannot work because I believe they can.\u201d<\/p>\n She says she knows she has to persuade people across the country, and in parliament, that the government\u2019s reforms can work in this area.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a004.47 EST<\/p>\n Mahmood says she has the \u201cmisfortune\u201d of looking at the way people smugglers are advertising and selling the \u201cgenerosity\u201d of Britain and that is driving people to get on small boats.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt is important that we send a signal,\u201d she says, adding that she was been working with other European countries.<\/p>\n Kuenssberg asks if the govenment cannot bring down the cost of taxis for asylum seekers, how can they be trusted on the wider issue?<\/p>\n Mahmood says she inherited contracts and that she is \u201cfurious\u201d about the cost to the taxpayer in relation to taxis. \u201cGive us a little bit of time,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n <\/span>BBC handout photo of Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood (left) appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.<\/span> Photograph: Jeff Overs\/BBC\/PAShare<\/p>\n 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Streeting accused of \u2018chaotic and incoherent approach\u2019 to NHS reform<\/h2>\n
Labour ‘fighting like rats in a sack’, Chris Philp says<\/h2>\n
Philp: 10,000 people have crossed channel illegally since Mahmood became home secretary<\/h2>\n
Home secretary: ‘Illegal migration is tearing our country apart’<\/h2>\n