The Home Secretary is set to announce a major shake-up of the immigration and asylum system later this month, the BBC has learned. Shabana Mahmood will model some of her new measures on the Danish system seen as one of the toughest in Europe. It is understood officials have been looking at Denmark’s tighter rules on family reunion and restricting most refugees to a temporary stay in the country. Mahmood wants to reduce incentives that draw people to the UK, while making it easier to expel those with no right to be in the country. But some in her.
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A decade of dramatic GOP change since Paul Ryan became speaker
Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wisconsin). became House speaker at the age of 45 on Oct. 29, 2015, 10 years ago Wednesday. The legislative turnover has been remarkable: Roughly 60 percent of the current House Republican Conference never served with Ryan, who retired in January 2019. Those few House Republicans who served under Ryan and remain in Congress have mostly sworn off their allegiances to that previous era. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York) was a freshman lawmaker in spring 2016 when she warmly introduced Ryan as a “happy warrior” . By 2020, Stefanik had reinvented herself as a Trump loyalist who would.