On today’s episode of The Ian Collins Show, Ian asks whether Shabana Mahmood’s new immigration crackdown can finally get control of Britain’s asylum system. The Home Secretary is preparing Trump-style UK visa bans for countries refusing to take back failed asylum seekers, alongside Denmark-inspired plans to seize valuables from illegal entrants to cover accommodation costs.

Baroness Maclean, Conservative Peer and former Home Office Minister, joins Ian to assess whether Mahmood’s plans are workable under the ECHR and Human Rights Act, and whether Labour’s approach can survive the legal challenges already being prepared. Amos Schonfield, Founder and CEO of Our Second Home, gives his perspective on how asylum seekers can be supported while the system faces major reform.

Mahmood’s proposals include visa sanctions on Angola, Namibia and the DRC, temporary refugee status with tougher reviews, and raising the wait for permanent settlement from five to twenty years. With 111,000 asylum claims in the year to June 2025, local protests over new accommodation sites, and Starmer promising to end hotel use by 2029, the question remains: will any of this fix Britain’s asylum crisis?

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