{"id":401859,"date":"2025-09-06T05:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401859\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T05:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:38:12","slug":"who-is-shabana-mahmood-pak-born-picked-as-uks-home-secretary-to-tackle-immigration-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401859\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Shabana Mahmood? Pak born picked as UK’s home secretary to tackle immigration – World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shabana Mahmood has been appointed the new Home Secretary of the United Kingdom<\/a>, succeeding Yvette Cooper <\/a>in Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s <\/a>latest reshuffle, which follows Angela Rayner\u2019s resignation. She now steps into one of the most demanding jobs in government at a time when record Channel crossings, asylum hotel use, and wider migration pressures dominate the political debate.<\/p>\n

Until now, Mahmood served as Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, where she confronted the prison overcrowding crisis. Just this week, she introduced major legislation in Parliament aimed at reforming the prison system, underscoring her reputation as a hands-on reformer.<\/p>\n

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Who is Shabana Mahmood?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shabana Mahmood was born in Birmingham in 1980 to Pakistani parents. She spent part of her early years in Saudi Arabia before moving back to the UK. She went on to study law at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later qualified as a barrister, specialising in professional indemnity cases.<\/p>\n

Mahmood has held several key posts across Labour\u2019s frontbench, including Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Shadow Minister for Prisons. She briefly stepped away from frontline politics in 2015 during Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s leadership but returned under Keir Starmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By 2023, she was serving as Shadow Justice Secretary and, following Labour\u2019s 2024 general election victory, became Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor. In that role, she pushed through early prisoner release schemes to relieve pressure on jails.<\/p>\n

Her new role<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, as Home Secretary, Mahmood inherits responsibility for tackling asylum backlogs, deportations, police reform and inquiries into grooming gangs. Her promotion highlights how seriously Starmer views immigration and\u00a0security issues, which are\u00a0expected to define much of his government\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n

Mahmood is often linked to Labour\u2019s \u201cblue Labour\u201d wing, favouring tougher stances on law and order while maintaining ties with the party\u2019s progressive base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shabana Mahmood has been appointed the new Home Secretary of the United Kingdom, succeeding Yvette Cooper in Prime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,138610,1144,712,138607,138608,138606,138612,138609,138613,138605,138604,16,15,1764,138611],"class_list":{"0":"post-401859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-keir-starmer-cabinet-reshuffle-2025","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-shabana-mahmood-asylum-backlog-uk","16":"tag-shabana-mahmood-deportations-uk","17":"tag-shabana-mahmood-immigration-policy","18":"tag-shabana-mahmood-justice-secretary-background","19":"tag-shabana-mahmood-labour-party-leader","20":"tag-shabana-mahmood-oxford-law-graduate","21":"tag-shabana-mahmood-pakistan-born","22":"tag-shabana-mahmood-uk-home-secretary","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-wales","26":"tag-yvette-cooper-successor-home-secretary"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}