Revelations. Resignations. From BBC bias to Cabinet scandals, read the stories that get the world talking – from the journalists that break them. |  | Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor | Shabana Mahmood will take centre stage today, unveiling her blueprint to ramp up the deportations of illegal migrants and deter “asylum shoppers”.
Her no-nonsense approach is markedly different to that of Yvette Cooper, her more cautious predecessor as home secretary. As we revealed yesterday, Ms Mahmood is threatening countries with visa bans if they refuse to take back rejected asylum seekers or foreign criminals.
The Trump-style restrictions will block people from travelling to the UK from Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo unless there is a rapid improvement in the number of returned migrants those countries accept.
It is one of more than a dozen big changes to the UK’s immigration system, which also includes forcing refugees who enter Britain illegally to wait 20 years before applying for permanent settlement, refusing asylum seekers more than one appeal and new legislation to prevent illegal migrants from exploiting the European Convention on Human Rights to block their deportations.
The plans are designed to take the fight to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. A summer campaign outlining aggressive immigration plans has helped Mr Farage cement his lead in the polls. Labour apparatchiks will also hope they distract from recent turbulence within the party over Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership.
Ms Mahmood has been tipped by some as a possible future Labour leader, and allies have described her as “a woman in a hurry”. Success in tackling immigration – an issue that has thwarted the ambitions of many a politician – would only strengthen her status as someone who could one day take the top job.
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If it’s true that you can tell a lot about somebody by looking at their shoes, then for decades I’ve been passing snap judgments on people without a crucial piece of data. I never notice anyone’s shoes – unless, say, they happen to be rocking some lime green Crocs, or not wearing any at all. I certainly wouldn’t be troubled by something so innocuous as a pair of brown suede Hush Puppies. Who would?
Well, Ian Sygrave had the answer to that: “Nearly 60 years ago, as a freshly minted teenager,” he recalled on the Letters page, “I decided to wear my new Hush Puppies to my very traditional grammar school. I soon found myself before the vice-master. The conversation was brisk. ‘Do you know what sort of people wear suede shoes?’ ‘No, Sir.’ ‘Cads.’ The punishment was a week of stacking tables in the dining hall. The offending shoes did not grace the school corridors again.”
This story stirred a memory for James Gibson, who responded: “I had a similar experience at about the same time. As a newly qualified chartered accountant at a major City firm, I was making my way down the hallowed partners’ corridor when one of them approached. Looking at my feet, he commented witheringly: ‘Gibson, there are two sorts of people who wear suede shoes – commercial travellers and partners. You are neither.’ Ah, heady days.”
I simply hadn’t realised that these shoes were once so divisive. But Fred Fearn wasn’t surprised: “As a former brand manager, I can confirm that Hush Puppies have always had to shake off negative associations. In the mid-1990s, reports on the Treasury often referred to ‘the Hush Puppies-wearing chancellor, Kenneth Clarke’. Despite our respect for him, the brand was not keen to associate itself with a cigar-smoking Conservative politician. However, Hush Puppies saw a huge surge in sales during his chancellorship, proving the truth of P T Barnum’s phrase: ‘There’s no such thing as bad publicity.’” What’s your worst footwear faux pas? Send your replies here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up here. | Plan your day with the telegraph | Set your alarm to catch up with journalists on the Your Say page and listen to their analysis on our latest podcasts.
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With the Ashes starting in Perth on Friday, we sent Sir Geoffrey Boycott to interview Joe Root and it proved to be an unforgettable morning. They are famous cricketing sons from which county? | | Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
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