Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has lashed out at Rachel Reeves’ pre-Budget leaks, also branding the u-turns a ‘hokey cokey’.

Watch the clip below –

An interview clip from when Shabana Mahmood was a backbencher, calling for an amnesty for illegal migrants.

She said: “On specific plans regarding amnesty for undocumented workers, myself personally as a Labour backbench member of parliament, I do support a general amnesty for all people already in the country so they can regularise their status and start playing a full part in British society.”

Left-wing commentator Owen Jones says: “Now she steals Farage and Trump’s rhetoric and policies and imposes mass deportation.

“These people have no principles! They’re driven only by power.”

Rebecca Long-Bailey criticises Mahmood for using “divisive rhetoric” which feeds “into the rhetoric of quite far-right organisations”, though stops short of coming out against the policy details

When asked by the BBC’s Vicki Young how the Government has handled the debate around asylum seekers, Long-Bailey replied “I’ll be honest I think some of the language that we’ve seen coming from government in recent months has fed into that divisive rhetoric and I want to see that change today. I’m sure all MPs in my party are prepared to have discussions with the government about what a fair and humane immigration system can look like, but not if we’re trying to feed into the rhetoric, of you know, quite far-right organisations quite frankly.”

The number of Labour rebels has risen to 15, with Cat Eccles, Richard Burgon and Sarah Owen all joining the swelling ranks.

Burgon says: “This approach isn’t just morally wrong; it’s politically disastrous.”

Owen says: “A strong immigration system doesn’t need to be a cruel one. It shouldn’t need saying – but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.”

Read the full list here

Reform’s Lee Anderson has called out Shabana Mahmood for previously opposing the deportation of foreign criminals.

He points out: “Don’t be fooled.

“So with the Home Secretary now talking tough on illegal migration can anyone think why she signed this letter which helped prevent a plane load of vile foreign criminals from being deported?

“One of these creatures went on to commit murder here in the UK.”

Tice asked if Mahmood would be welcomed into Reform UK: “Well obviously she would have to go through the usual vetting process… people have got to believe in our principles and values, that’s the key thing.”

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has wished Shabana Mahmood “well” in her efforts to stop the boats, but warned what she’s proposing won’t be enough.

She tweets: “I don’t care who stops the boats and neither do the British people. I wish the Home Secretary well.

“But I’ve seen first hand others talk tough on illegal immigration without actually wanting to get anything done.

“One problem the Home Secretary has is an out of touch Labour Party that will never accept her plans.”

Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice says Shabana Mahmood is “talking the language” of concerned Reform UK members and voters.

Speaking at a press conference this morning, Mr Tice said the Home Secretary may need Reform MPs’ votes to get the legislation through, amid growing backlash from Labour MPs.

He said: “I think the Home Secretary is talking the language of concerned Reform voters, members, and elected representatives.

“She’s reflecting the concern – if you talk to anyone on any high street up and down the country they are deeply deeply concerned about illegal migration, the scale and speed of legal migration, and the scale of illegality and criminality on every high street.

“We wish her well on behalf of the country… has she shot our fox? No far from it. What we’ve done is essentially become the mainstream of the debate, and they’re all trying to play catch-up. But we’re still the most trusted party under Nigel’s leadership with regard to migration.”

Asked if he agrees with the home secretary that illegal migration is tearing the country apart, Brian Leishman MP said:

“No, I fundamentally don’t. I think the reason why our country has been torn apart has been because of chronic austerity that has immiserated millions of people across many communities…We need to actually get back to proper Labour Party values and invest in public services and improve living standards.”

“I would say what we’ve got to do is absolutely have an honest and frank analysis and admit that Britain has never actually been this incredibly welcoming place for immigrants…This is nothing new and what I will say, some of the proposals that have been leaked, they do sound very Reform in their nature.”

Brian Leishman (Alloa and Grangemouth) said other Labour MPs are disgusted:

“Speaking with other Labour MPs I know that there’s a real degree of disgust at some of these proposals.”

Simon Opher, Stroud: “We should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it’s wrong and cruel… we should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it.”

A tenth Labour MP has publicly blasted Shabana Mahmood’s anticipated asylum announcement.

Sheffield Central’s Abtisam Mohamed says on X: “For more than a decade we’ve seen that hostile policies don’t fix the asylum system they just create chaos, cost, and deeper division. The latest proposals repeat the same mistake.

“When our own process recognises someone as a refugee, stripping them of stability later doesn’t strengthen control; it weakens trust in the system. Other countries have tried constant reassessments, and it simply swallowed resources without delivering mass returns.

“If we truly want an asylum system that works, the answer is clear: faster decisions, better accommodation, and a functioning agreement with France. Punishing recognised refugees won’t achieve any of that.

“We need a fair, workable approach, not another round of policies that divide communities and fail on their own terms.”

Borders minister Alex Norris has insisted Labour is not announcing its asylum reforms just to chase Reform UK voters.

He told BBC Breakfast: “The one thing I can assure you is that political considerations don’t come into this.

“We’re the Government of the country. We get out of bed every day to do our best by the people of this country.

“We know people are fed-up. We know people don’t want to see people coming in an uncontrolled way.”

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will stand up in the Commons at about 3:30pm to announce her plans.

Expect some stern words from Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle after days of very detailed briefings to the media before addressing Parliament…

Borders minister Alex Norris has claimed there is an illegal migrant living in Britain, receiving £800 a month from outside the country, driving an Audi, and yet not working to support their lifestyle.

He told Times Radio: “The British taxpayer subsidises bed and board and support for individuals to the tune of multiple billions of pounds per year.

“It is right if people have assets that they should contribute to them. You know, there’s an individual, for example, who’s getting £800 a month from outside the country who’s just picked himself up an Audi, if people have cars, if they have e-bikes, well, they should be making a contribution to their support.”

Shabana Mahmood will set out the “biggest changes to the asylum system in modern times”, a Home Office minister has said ahead of the home secretary’s statement to the House of Commons later today.

The changes will “reduce those reasons for people to come here illegally” and “make it easier for us to remove people who have no legitimate right to be here, including foreign criminals”, Alex Norris told Sky News.

He also claimed the changes would allow Britain in the long run to “establish safe and legal routes so that people don’t have to come across Europe, don’t have to come across the channel”.

The borders minister insisted Labour was not chasing Reform UK voters with its new asylum policy.

Alex Norris told BBC Breakfast: “The one thing I can assure you is that political considerations don’t come into this.

“We’re the Government of the country. We get out of bed every day to do our best by the people of this country.

“We know people are fed-up. We know people don’t want to see people coming in an uncontrolled way.”

Labour is once again engulfed in a civil war this morning as MPs are already breaking rank to attack the party’s new asylum reforms. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will deliver the radical update in the Commons this afternoon, announcing huge changes to deportations and processing.

Read the full piece here

Former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption has said the Government’s plans to change how human rights legislation is applied in migration court cases will be “limited” due to the European Court of Human Rights.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It will certainly have some effect, though I suspect not a very great effect.

“The idea, as I understand it, is to direct UK judges as to how they are to interpret the European Convention.

“Now, if we pass an act in the UK that tells judges to interpret the Convention in a particular way and the Strasbourg court says it should be interpreted in a different way, then the Strasbourg court will hold us to have violated the Convention, we will then have a direct conflict between our international obligations under the Convention and our domestic legislation.

“This doesn’t mean that the idea is impractical, far from it. What it means is that if the Government wants to stay in the Convention system – and it does – then it has only very limited freedom of action, it has to draft its legislation in a way that will be acceptable to the Strasbourg court.

“That’s quite difficult to do, because the Strasbourg court is an unpredictable court which tends to make up the legal principles as it goes along.”

He added: “All I’m saying is that it’s actually a difficult and delicate business to try and work out what Strasbourg court will accept and what it won’t.”

The borders minister has urged Labour backbenchers to wait for the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s asylum announcement later on Monday amid an outcry from some MPs.

Asked about opposition from backbenchers, Alex Norris told Times Radio: “I respect my colleagues and their views.

“I know they want what we want, which is a safe system where people don’t make dangerous journeys. They want a system that is controlled, that has the confidence of the British public.”

Asked about accusations that the policy was racist, he said: “I disagree with that characterisation.

“Of course, they have not seen the package yet and I ask them to look at it closely. I know they will.”

He added: “What I say to them is we cannot be defenders of a broken system.

“The system is not safe, the system is not controlled and it’s eroding public confidence. And if we erode public confidence, then we will lose confidence in the asylum system entirely and I don’t want to do that.”

The borders minister has declined to rule out imposing visa sanctions on India if the country did not take back more illegal immigrants.

Asked whether the Government would extend visa sanctions to India, Alex Norris told Times Radio: “We are looking at all of our agreements with every country, and if we do not think we’re getting that right engagement, that right commitment, then of course we reserve all opportunities to escalate that.

“But this is best done by bilateral co-operation. That’s what we’re seeking across the country.

“But people would expect that if we have failed asylum applications or if they’ve committed crimes, of course they should be removed.

“And we’re going to use every available method to us.”

Asylum seekers will not have “family heirlooms” confiscated to pay for their accommodation, a minister has said.

Asked about reports the Government could pass a so-called “jewellery law” to confiscate asylum seekers’ valuables, borders minister Alex Norris said details had not yet been announced, but it was “right” that people contributed to the cost of supporting them.

Mr Norris said: “The British taxpayer subsidises bed-and-board and support for individuals to the tune of multiple billions of pounds every year.

“It is right if people have assets that they should contribute to them.”

He added: “There’s an individual, for example, who’s getting £800 a month from outside the country, who’s just picked himself up an Audi. If people have cars, if they have e-bikes, they should be making a contribution to their support.

“We will not be taking family heirlooms off individuals. Of course we’re not going to do that.”

Labour MP Tony Vaughan KC warned “these asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning”.

John McDonnell and Bell Ribeiro-Addy have both shared Mr Vaughan’s criticism of the Home Secretary’s flagship policy.

You can read his full comments on X below.

Conservative shadow Home Office minister Matt Vickers has said the Government’s asylum overhaul is “largely gimmicks”.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We welcome anything if the Government pulls its finger out and gets on with trying to tackle this issue.

“It’s a huge challenge for this country, it comes at a huge cost to the taxpayers and it’s blatantly unfair, so we welcome any positive move by the Government.

“But the reality is this is small steps, some small steps in the right direction, but largely gimmicks.”

He added: “The Government is not going far enough, the only way to solve this crisis is that people, when they get in those boats, know they will not be able to stay, they’ll stop paying those people-smuggling gangs.

“People need to know that when they arrive in this country they will be removed.”

Modelled on the Danish system, the aim of today’s Reforms is to make the UK less attractive for illegal immigrants and make it easier to deport them.

Under the plans, the home secretary will bring forward a bill to change how article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the right to family life, is applied in migration court cases.

The Home Office has said it’s seen a rise in the use of rights-based appeals in recent years as a means of avoiding deportation.

The changes would see only those with immediate family in the UK, such as a parent or child, being able to use article 8 in future.