Jonathan Gullis sits in for Ian Collins as we break down Shabana Mahmood’s explosive asylum reform speech and what it means for Labour’s survival. Liam Deacon, Paul Richards and Kieran Mullan MP join us to unpack the Home Secretary’s “Asylum Reset” — from 20-year settlement waits and 30-month reviews to visa bans on Angola, Namibia and the DRC, voluntary return payments, benefit restrictions and mass case reconsiderations costing £872m. We look at Mahmood’s claims of ‘violence and racism’, the backlash from Labour MPs including Sarah Owen, and whether these Denmark-style reforms can actually work. Plus: new polling shows nearly half of Labour voters want Keir Starmer to quit, trust in Rachel Reeves collapses, and successor names surge as Labour crashes to 19% with Reform UK on 27%.

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