Shabana Mahmood has published the government's new Immigration and Asylum Bill — the eighth piece of legislation changing the UK's asylum system since 2022. The headline measures: a new appeals body outside the court system, a means-tested scheme charging asylum seekers for support (including a £10,000 fee before settled status is granted), and a narrowing of Article 8 of the ECHR — the right to private and family life. Ministers sell it as toughness in...