The home secretary has put forward a series of asylum reforms both bold enough to take on Nigel Farage and extreme enough for the leader of Reform UK to give them his backing. Will she tear the Labour party in two, asks Simon Walters T here are a number of possible outcomes to Shabana Mahmood’s radical shake up of the asylum system and her highly unorthodox manner of defending it. On the one hand, it could be abandoned as a result of the fierce Labour backlash with the home secretary’s