Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people Shabana Mahmood is facing demands for compassion and clarity after it emerged that only a “few hundred” asylum seekers would initially be permitted to come to the UK under three new schemes for refugees. The home secretary had justified a series of hardline policies – such as the deportation of