It would be wrong to dismiss the government’s plans out of hand, but the home secretary is taking Labour to a strange and dangerous place by trying to out-populist the populists, says Sean O’Grady A re the wrong people applauding what the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood calls the “ most sweeping changes to our asylum system in a generation ”? Nigel Farage, perhaps a little mischievously, says that she “sounds like a Reform supporter”, albeit adding that the European Convention on Human Rights