Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don’t want extremes – they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary “More Labour.” These two words sprang from the postmortem into last week’s Gorton and Denton byelection loss . But what do they mean when applied to what this government does, not least in the contested politics of migration? To answer that, we have to understand what the Labour party really is, because at its best it is a broad church. My party was born as a union of newly industrialised, working-class communities and radical social reformers. Added to that mix came those like my family. Immigrant communities came to this country in search of better lives and found their political home in the Labour party. Shabana Mahmood is the home secretary. She is Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood Continue reading...