Overview
- The BBC reports Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will set out a major package later this month focused on deterrence and returns.
- Measures under review include tighter family reunion rules, temporary refugee status and streamlined removals for people refused leave to remain.
- Senior Home Office officials traveled to Copenhagen in October to study Denmark’s border control, asylum procedures and integration policies.
- The push follows rising small-boat arrivals in the Channel and a case of a deported migrant re-entering the UK on 18 October.
- Danish ministers say tougher laws and voluntary‑return programs have increased removals and cut successful asylum claims, while Labour MPs are divided over adopting similar steps.