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UK seeks Danish inspiration to shake up immigration system

Release Date: 2025-11-08
Media: BBC
Summary: UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is preparing major changes to the UK’s immigration and asylum system, drawing inspiration from Denmark’s much stricter model. Danish policies include granting most refugees only temporary residence, making family reunification harder, and more easily deporting foreign offenders. UK officials have recently visited Copenhagen to study these measures.

Mahmood aims to reduce incentives for people to come to the UK and to speed up removals for those without legal right to stay. However, the approach is dividing the Labour Party. Some MPs say adopting Denmark-style policies would help regain public trust and counter the Reform UK party, while others warn the measures resemble far-right ideas and could be discriminatory and politically damaging.

Denmark’s Social Democrats argue that a firm immigration stance has allowed them to maintain public support and focus on progressive domestic policies. The UK government is now debating how far it should follow that example.
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