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Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Patrick Gibbons,

and today I'm joined by Michael Simmons and Danny Shaw, former advisor to Yvette Cooper.

Domestic politics today seems to be dominated by two things, reaction to Shabana Mahmood's

asylum reform plans that she announced yesterday in the Commons and the continuing slow march

to Budget Day next week. Danny, I'll come to you in a minute on the policy, but Michael,

it appears that reaction from government loyalists and also broadly from the right of British

politics was pretty positive. Yeah, I mean, I think that the reaction to this new asylum plan that the government unveiled yesterday

is kind of how you would have expected.

It's fairly right wing in how it's in how it's been perceived.

It's certainly stronger measures than, you know, any Tory Home Secretary, I think, has tried to impose,

especially on the jewelry stuff. A lot of the criticism then has been sort of, as you would

expect from those on the left. You know, you've had Richard Bergen, people like that,

calling it out, saying that it's cruel and inhumane,

and Chabana and Secure Starmer are trying to sort of ape right-wing language.

The Tories see this as cynical, too.

At home office questions yesterday, Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said that

Shabana was trying to bring in a one-in,

one-out policy for Downing Stratt, hinting that this is part of leadership ambitions.

But clearly the government felt that they had to do something quite strong on asylum and

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