Major changes to 'out of control' asylum system as Home Secretary issues warning

Mădălin Mihai

The Home Secretary will on Monday unveil plans to overhaul human rights laws to speed up deportations in the biggest shake-up to the asylum system since the Second World War. The hardline blueprint will include measures to ramp up removals of foreign criminals and people who come to Britain illegally, including reforms to a key plank of European human rights law, restrictions to appeals and a tightening of modern slavery law. It comes after Ms Mahmood said Britain's asylum system was "out of