Mahmood must really get moving

I KNOW actions speak louder than words, but top marks nevertheless to our new Home Secretary for her uncompromising attack on the migrants and their lawyers who lodge cynical last-minute legal challenges against deportation.

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Shabana Mahmood was right: these little cabals of wriggling human rights experts are making a mockery of the law with their transparent excuses and prevarications.

Her patience snapped on Tuesday when a 25-year-old Eritrean man scheduled to be returned to France under the Government's much derided "one in, one out" policy won a 14-day reprieve in the courts.

His lawyers had argued, first, that he faced "destitution" if he was sent back across the Channel, and then that he was "a victim of modern slavery".