Migrants face stricter Danish-style rules to cut numbers settling in UK ...Middle East

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to announce major reforms to European human rights laws and modern slavery legislation as she pledges to deport more illegal migrants.

Mahmood is considering reforms to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and modern slavery laws in a bid to stop what ministers regard as unjustified attempts to delay or stop deportations, a Government source said.

Mahmood’s announcement will also include reforms modelled on an asylum crackdown by the centre-left Social Democrats in Denmark, which deports 95 per cent of failed asylum seekers and, as of May 2025, recorded its lowest level of asylum applications in 40 years.

It will come as part of a Monday announcement which will include the most sweeping reforms to tackle illegal migration in modern times, the Home Office said.

Mahmood’s plan comes as Labour said it was close to hitting the milestone of deporting 50,000 failed asylum seekers, foreign criminals and other immigration offenders since winning the election in July 2024 – an increase of 23 per cent on the preceding 16 month period.

Her targeting of the ECHR and modern slavery laws risks opening up splits with the Labour left at a time when MPs are said to be plotting to oust Sir Keir Starmer.

But it also comes with the party trailing Nigel Farage’s Reform in the polls, which, like the Conservatives, has promised to quit the convention, amid anger over the Channel small boats crisis.

Danish policies include tough restrictions on family reunion

A delegation of senior Home Office officials travelled to Copenhagen last month to learn about Denmark’s policies, which include tighter restrictions on family reunion and restricting most refugees to only a temporary stay in the country.

Mahmood has already announced plans to block those granted asylum in the UK from automatic long-term settlement and the right to bring their wives, husbands and children to the country, without setting out details.

She has also revealed proposals for a series of new conditions for migrants who want to settle in the UK, including ensuring they learn English to a high standard, work, have a clean criminal record and volunteer in their community.

In Denmark, refugees and their spouses must be 24 or over to apply for reunification in a bid to stop forced marriages, the incoming partner must pay a guarantee and both must pass a language test

Refugees living in what Danish law describes as “parallel societies”, where more than half the residents are “non-Western”, are not eligible for family reunion, under a controversial law that the EU’s top court has found to be discriminatory.

The latter law also allows the state to sell off or demolish apartment blocks in so-called “parallel societies” where more than 50 per cent of residents have “non-Western” backgrounds, for example, if there are high crime or unemployment rates.

Denmark also has a “zero refugee” policy which means it actively discourages people from coming to the country to claim asylum.

Right to family life blamed for halting deportation

The Home Office has been reviewing the operation of Article 8 of the ECHR – the right to family life – which has been blamed for allowing judges to halt the deportation of foreign criminals.

Mahmood’s reforms are likely to include measures to clamp down on the use of Article 8 by illegal migrants to get their removals halted in court, with the Home Secretary previously saying British judges have adopted a “maximalist” approach to interpreting the ECHR.

There have also been suggestions that the Government could look at Article 3, which prohibits torture, degrading treatment or punishment, but this is viewed as legally more difficult to navigate.

Mahmood has also already launched an attempt to reform the ECHR at the European level in a bid to make deportations easier, and has signalled a willingness to try and change other international conventions that bind the UK, including the UN Refugee Convention.

Mahmood’s announcement will come after the Home Office published new figures on Thursday showing there have been 48,560 returns of failed asylum seekers, foreign criminals and other immigration offenders under Labour’s watch between 1 July 2024 and 31 October 2025.

A total of 36,031 of these have been voluntary returns on a scheme that allows those leaving to apply for financial support of up to £3,000, while there have been 12,529 enforced returns.

Asylum-related returns accounted for 14,408 of the overall total.

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The Government has operated 66 charter deportation flights to countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.

The Home Secretary said: “Nearly 50,000 illegal migrants have been removed or deported since the election.

“We’ve ramped up enforcement, deported foreign criminals from our streets, and saved taxpayers millions.

“I pledge today to scale up the removal and deportations of illegal migrants and do whatever it takes to secure our borders.”

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