Shabana Mahmood – the new Margaret Thatcher?

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The location caput is going hard connected migration and she's taking a batch of radical with her, not slightest Kemi Badenoch and the Reform party.

Shabana Mahmood is utilizing her individuality - arsenic a British Asian Muslim - to beryllium wherefore she understands the migration occupation successful the state amended than most.

So however utmost are her caller policies, modelled connected the Danish system? Can she transportation the full of Labour that they're not going excessively far, erstwhile they've spent years calling Tory policies "racist"?

And arsenic a tough, plain-speaking and passionate politician, is she the caller Margaret Thatcher? And could she airs a menace to Sir Keir Starmer present the Labour Party is looking beyond him arsenic leader?

Plus - Harriet thinks the chancellor volition scrap the two-child payment headdress wholly astatine adjacent week's fund - but is that really fashionable with the party? Or are Sir Keir and Rachel Reeves bending to the demands of their backbenchers?

Remember, you tin besides ticker Beth Rigby, Harriet Harman and Ruth Davidson connected YouTube.