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Shabana Mahmood Faces Furious Backlash to Asylum Overhaul

Novara Live

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News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8577 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has defended Labour’s controversial new asylum plans, with much of the opposition coming from within the party.

Plus: The Renters’ Rights Act is set to become law, Zack Polanski hits back at Labour, and we speak to British journalist Sami Hamdi about his detention by ICE.

With Michael Walker, Freddie Feltham, Tom Darling, Sami Hamdi, and Beth Gardiner-Smith.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:11.6

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0:18.0

Welcome to Navaralive. I'm Michael Walker, standing in for Aaron Bistani. And I'm joined tonight by Freddie Felton from the What the F is Left podcast.

0:28.0

Freddy, it's your first time on the show. I want to get you to sort of tell the audience a bit about yourself.

0:32.4

I discovered you from an interview you did with Aaron Bustani a couple of weeks ago, which was very, very interesting.

0:37.2

So yeah, tell us, tell us what is your podcast? How did you start it? What's the idea?

0:42.0

What's your project? Sure, sure, sure. Thanks so much, Michael and Navarra for having me on.

0:47.7

F in the chat for being a Labour guy, I know we're kind of washed right now, especially with the

0:51.5

Navarra audience. But look, man, I set up a podcast

0:54.9

because I used to work for the Labour Party, and I was concerned about, I guess, what the political

0:59.8

project is. And I know this is probably something that resonates with a lot of people on the left right now.

1:05.1

But I feel like we're in a sliding doors moment between a past understanding of how politics works and is prosecuted

1:13.5

and a future that looks fundamentally different in our communication reality in the way in which

1:18.7

we organise ourselves in the way in which we understand really what is going on and so that's the

1:22.6

point of the podcast we ask us we ask ourselves and our guests and the audience, what is left?

1:28.8

What is left of British politics?

1:31.0

What is left of our institutions?

1:32.8

What is the political left in a world which seems completely unrecognizable to the kind

1:38.1

of political theory that Marx would have been imagining many centuries ago?

1:42.5

By the Marx t-shirts though, is still relevant as a fashion icon, if nothing else. I shouldn't say if nothing else, obviously. He's got a lot to say. Coming up tonight, Shabana Mabood, it's a bit of an understatement. Shabana Mammud faces huge backlash over her asylum. Overhaul. We'll talk about the backlash. Got an interview on that.

2:02.0

Zach Polanski is making political hay out of this.

2:05.1

I mean, I don't know.

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