Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, announced an overhaul of the UK’s asylum system, declaring it “out of control” and “unfair” last November. Her measures included making refugee status temporary, ending guaranteed housing and benefit support for asylum seekers, creating new capped safe and legal routes into the UK and overhauling the legal system to end multiple appeals. Critics have declared her approach as “dystopian” and “inhumane”, while others see it as the starting point to ending an immigration crisis caused by illegal migration, a huge backlog of cases and the issue of how to house asylum seekers. So, is the...