Why Labour is going Danish on immigration – podcast

Danish journalist Nilas Heinskou and Syrian refugee Agob Yacoub discuss Denmark's harsh immigration and asylum policies - reportedly the inspiration for changes to be announced by the UK government this week

The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is expected to announce a radical overhaul of the UK's asylum and immigration system, modelled in part on what Denmark has done over the past decade.

Since 2019 Denmark's centre-left government has been trying something new: its normal social democratic manifesto, alongside a series of harsh policies around immigration and asylum - even bulldozing estates deemed to contain too many residents of non-western" origin.