On Monday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood outlined some of Labour’s strongest-ever proposals to solve Britain’s crisis-ridden asylum system.

Her plans include:

• Cutting the time refugees are initially granted to stay in the UK from five years to 30 months – which can only be extended if it is not safe for them to return;
• Refugees will have to spend 20 years in Britain before being allowed to apply for settled status, up from five years;
• There will be no automatic right to family reunion for refugees under core protection;
• “Asylum seekers” will no longer have their housing and weekly allowances guaranteed – and those who can work or have valuable assets will have to contribute to their costs in the UK;
• Families with children may also be subject to enforced returns under measures to remove those with no right to be in the UK.