Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced controversial plans for the UK to embrace a "Denmark-style" asylum system, aimed at making Britain less attractive to illegal immigrants and making deportations easier. The hardline "zero asylum seekers" approach taken by Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen in 2019 was unusual for a centre-left party. But her Social Democrats gained seats at the 2022 election, while the populist right-wing Danish People's Party finished twelfth - having been