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Shabana Mahmood sensationally told posh white liberals “trying to put me in a box” to just “f*** right off” as she defended her migrant crackdown. The Home Secretary furiously dismissed claims she was “out-Reforming Reform” by accusing the “random heckler” of trying to “delegitimise” the “perfectly valid” concerns about Britain’s immigration crisis.

She said: “I do think there is that element of it, which is: ‘How dare you, a brown woman, say a thing that we white liberals think you’re not allowed to say?’ Well I’m saying it. Ms Mahmood was heckled by a man moments after the event began at the Duchess Theatre. He accused the Labour Home Secretary of going further than Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf on immigration.

A woman then stood up and started heckling before being quickly bustled away.

Ms Mahmood said: “I’m not going to let a tin-pot racist or some random heckler or anybody else claw away at the foundations of who I am as a person.

“I’m a proud English woman. I’m a proud Brit, I’m a hugely proud Muslim. That is the absolute core of my life.”

The Labour Home Secretary denied claims she was copying Reform or the Conservatives’ policies.

She said such claims were “just a way of delegitimising the point of view that I bring to the table”.

She added: “But it’s also a way of delegitimising the perfectly valid, legitimate views of millions of people in this country, including ethnic minorities in this country. And it’s not acceptable, right? And also, you’re trying to put me in a box, which includes a lot of people who think I don’t even belong in my own country.

“That’s why I said this individual can just f— right off, because I know I belong in my own country. You’re not going to be able to do that to me.”

Under Labour’s plans, migrants will be told they must wait, on average, ten years before they can apply for settlement rights.

Ms Mahmood said those relying on handouts must wait 20 to 30 years to receive indefinite leave to remain.

The Home Office has predicted 1.6 million people could be given indefinite leave to remain, adding that the rules must be changed or they “will be able to access social housing and the welfare state”.

Foreign nationals applying to settle after 10 years must have no criminal record, speak English to A-level standards and have no debt.

But left-wing Labour MPs, trade union bosses and health chiefs are trying to force the Home Secretary to water down her plans.

She has also unveiled plans to make refugee status for asylum seekers temporary, to be reviewed every 30 months in an attempt to tackle the small boats crisis. Migrants whose home countries are deemed safe in the interim will be asked to leave Britain.

A staggering 1,469,000 migrants moved to the UK in the year to March 2023.

The number of arrivals fell slightly to 1,299,000 in the year to June 2024, before dropping again to 898,000 last year.

Net migration, which takes into account the number of people leaving the UK, surged to a record high of 944,000 in the year ending March 2023. It hit 764,000 in 2022, before dropping to 649,000 in June 2024.

It fell to 204,000 in the year to September 2025 as the number of people leaving the country hit the highest level for a century.

Officials believe one in 30 people living in the UK arrived between 2021 and 2024.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood compared the influx to “freedom of movement”.

And Ms Mahmood turned on left-wing critics who want her to change course.

She said: “What some people in politics are not able to fully compute and conceive of is that out there in the country, there is so much anger about the broken system that we are in danger of losing public consent for having a refugee system. Full stop,” she said.

“The element of it, which I think is to do with my race and my background, is this sense that people have an expectation of what people like me should think if you don’t stay within the box… what I always come back to is that you can’t take away from me who or what I am.”