Families of failed asylum seekers will be offered up to £40,000 to leave Britain as part of Shabana Mahmood’s efforts to cut migration numbers.
Those who refuse the offer will be left vulnerable to forcible removal from the country – including children, with new laws giving Home Office workers the power to physically restrain them.
In a speech this morning, the Home Secretary insisted that her crackdown on both legal and illegal immigration was the result of “Labour values” in a bid to head off a rebellion from MPs worried that her approach is too cruel.
She said that bringing migration under control was crucial to winning voters back from the populist right, warning: “A loss of control breeds fear and when fearful, people turn inwards.”
One focus of Home Office policy is making it easier to remove people who are deemed to have no right to stay in the UK.
As part of this, Mahmood announced a pilot scheme in which families who have put in a claim for asylum but been denied will be offered payments of £10,000 per person, up to a maximum of £40,000, to leave the country voluntarily.
The money is likely to be given in the form of prepaid debit cards which can then be used when they have returned to their home country. They will also be given free flights to get there.
The Government says that the programme will save money for taxpayers, because the overall cost of housing and then forcibly removing failed asylum seekers amounts to more than the cash on offer.
Those who refuse to take part will be subject to deportation – including children, under new powers which will allow them to be physically manhandled if necessary, something which currently is usually unlawful.
Mahmood laid out a string of tougher policies, including the pledge to withdraw funding and accommodation from any asylum seekers who have other means of supporting themselves, regular reviews of refugees to check if their home country is now safe to live in, and a ban on visa applications from four countries which produce a high number of asylum seekers.
In a further move, the Government will deny a UK visa to anyone who has been convicted of a crime – in this country or abroad – and given a prison sentence of at least one year, including suspended sentences.
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Net migration overall has fallen sharply since Labour took power as a result of restrictions already introduced by this Government and its predecessor under Rishi Sunak. But the number of people entering Britain illegally by crossing the English Channel in a small boat remains at or near record highs.
Net migration was down 69 per cent to 204,000 from July 2024 to June 2025, according ONS data.
Government figures showed that 41,262 crossed the Channel in small boats last year, up 13 per cent in a year. The number is lower than the peak of 45,774 in 2022.
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