Home secretary Shabana Mahmood announced sweeping changes to the asylum rules yesterday; the largest overhaul since the Second World War. The changes have apparently been inspired by Denmark but will they work or are they - as one Labour MP said - ‘repugnant’?

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Guests: 

• Ben Clathworthy, Whitehall editor, The Times.
• Fraser Nelson, columnist, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Olivia Case, Micaela Arneson, Harry Stott. 

Read more: Shabana Mahmood speech: Asylum policy to cope with ‘volatile’ world

Further listening: Doomed to fail? Labour’s asylum u-turn

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