Mahmood’s new rules will leave refugees in cruel state of uncertainty | Letters

2026-03-08 - 17:23

Readers respond to the home secretary’s changes to the asylum system, including the move to make asylum status temporary The Law Society, according to your report (Mahmood’s move to make asylum temporary ‘may undermine refugee convention’, 2 March), believes the home secretary’s changes to “refugee status” might not comply with the UK’s legal obligations. That is important, but our wider concern should be with our moral and humanitarian obligations. The UN’s refugee convention was drawn up to give those driven from their homes by persecution not just sanctuary, but an opportunity to build new lives. It requires a response that is compassionate as well as legal, but the new rules will leave refugees in a cruel state of uncertainty. Continue reading...