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Alf Dubs Calls for Home Secretary’s Resignation Over Asylum Policy

6/26/2026

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Veteran Labour peer Alf Dubs called for Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s removal, scrapped asylum reforms, and called her agenda ‘performative cruelty’.
Alf Dubs warned that tightening indefinite leave to remain could leave asylum-seeking children without family reunification and risk handcuffing them before deportation.
Alf Dubs urged the United Kingdom to honor the 1951 Refugee Convention and European Convention on Human Rights and praised Andy Burnham’s community-focused campaign as an alternative.

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Veteran Labour peer Alf Dubs called for Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s removal, scrapped asylum reforms, and called her agenda ‘performative cruelty’.
Alf Dubs warned that tightening indefinite leave to remain could leave asylum-seeking children without family reunification and risk handcuffing them before deportation.
Alf Dubs urged the United Kingdom to honor the 1951 Refugee Convention and European Convention on Human Rights and praised Andy Burnham’s community-focused campaign as an alternative.