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The Home Secretary has defended the Government’s asylum reform plans after a Labour MP branded them “dystopian”.Speaking during Home Office questions in the Commons on Monday, Nottingham East MP Nadia Whittome said: “The Denmark-style policies briefed in the last couple of days are dystopian.Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, insisted her plans could unite “a divided country” and fix the asylum system.

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00:00Nadia Winston.
00:01The Denmark-style policies briefed in the last couple of days are dystopian.
00:07It's shameful that a Labour government is ripping up the rights and protections
00:11of people who have endured unimaginable trauma.
00:14Is this how we'd want to be treated if we were fleeing for our lives?
00:18Of course not.
00:19So how can we be adopting such obviously cruel policies?
00:23Is the Home Secretary proud that the government has sunk to such debt
00:26that it's now being praised by Tommy Robinson?
00:30Well, Mr Speaker, I'm disappointed at the nature of the question from my honourable friend.
00:37I hope she will look at the detail of the reforms.
00:41And what I've said already on these matters is that we have a proper problem
00:45that it is our moral duty to fix.
00:48Our asylum system is broken.
00:50The breaking of that asylum system is causing huge division across our whole country.
00:55It is a moral mission for me to resolve that division across our country.
01:00I know that the reforms I will be setting out later on today
01:03can fix this system and in doing so can unite what is today a divided country.
01:08The
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