Shabana Mahmood to host Five Eyes meeting on people-smuggling
by Rowena Mason Whitehall editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6ZVST)
New home secretary will be joined in London by counterparts from US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand
Shabana Mahmood, the new home secretary, will host a meeting of the Five Eyes security alliance to discuss how to stop people-smuggling as it emerged that ministers were looking at housing those who entered the UK by small boat in military barracks.
Mahmood is to be joined in London by Kristi Noem, the US secretary of state for homeland security, as well as interior ministers from Australia, Canada and New Zealand - the other member countries of the intelligence-sharing pact.
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