LABOUR’s flagship new migrant reforms, set to be unveiled tomorrow, have been derided as a fresh set of gimmicks that will fail to end small boat crossings. Shabana Mahmood is set to unveil new changes, which she claims are the most radical since the end of the Second World War.

The make-or-break reforms to Britain’s asylum system will draw on Denmark’s hardline policies, and include a rapid scaling up of removals and deportations as Labour admits for the first time that the European Convention on Human Rights is allowing serious criminals to stay in Britain. Ms Mahmood will announce the package in the Commons tomorrow, which will include new legislation to reform human rights and modern slavery laws, and fast-track asylum rejections. However the policies have already been rejected by the Tories and Reform for falling short of what is needed to tackle Britain’s migrant crises.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp insisted that despite Labour’s new recognition of the problems being caused by the ECHR, only quitting the treaty entirely would restore the UK’s border.

Mr Philp said: “The only way to stop illegal immigration and deport all illegal immigrants and foreign criminals is to come out of the ECHR completely.

“We cannot allow human rights lawyers to exploit the ECHR to allow dangerous foreign criminals to stay in the UK any longer. Tinkering around the edges as Labour proposes won’t work.

“Labour is living in fantasy land with these half-measures that are no more likely to work than their previous failed ‘smash the gangs’ gimmick.”

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: “The Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.

“Sadly with the Human Rights Act and ECHR membership the changes won’t survive the courts or probably even her own backbenchers.”

Labour’s proposed changes will include new legislation to change how British judges have to balance the ECHR’s Article 8 – the right to a family life – with the rights of Britons to live free from violence and criminality.

The treaty’s provisions have been roundly abused by illegal migrants, with judges unable to enforce deportations.

Home Office sources were unable to say when the legislation will be introduced to parliament, though were confident the changes would in place well before the next general election in 2029.

The package of hard-line reforms may be the Government’s last opportunity to crack down on small boats crossing the Channel before the crunch national poll, with Reform UK still holding a commanding lead over all other parties.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer insisted that while his government would defend Britain’s values as a “fair, tolerant and compassionate country”, he acknowledged voters want to know that the borders are “secure and rules are enforced”.

He insisted: “These reforms will block endless appeals, stop last minute claims and scale up removals of those with no right to be here.”

Shabana Mahmood, widely regarded as the most right-wing minister around the Cabinet table, said yesterday that the illegal migrant crisis is “tearing our country apart”.

However she rejected left-wing criticism from the Green Party and backbench Labour MPs that tackling the issue is engaging with far-right talking points.

Yesterday Labour MPs briefed that the reforms represent a “moral dead end’ and are “imitating the fear on the right”.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch warned of the likelihood of Sir Keir once again folding in response to pressure from hard-left backbenchers, and offered to work with the Home Secretary to guarantee Tory MP votes for the package.

Ms Mahmood rejected Labour MP criticism, pointing out that she is the “child of migrants”, but that tackling the record-high small boat crossings “is a moral mission”.

“It is dividing communities, people can see huge pressure in their communities and they can also see a system that is broken and where people are able to flout the rules, abuse the system and get away with it.

“I am not willing to stand by a pretend there isn’t a problem, when I know there is one, and then suggest that any solution to that cannot work because I believe they can.”

Other reforms being announced tomorrow include creating a ‘one-stop-shop’ to replace the broken appeals system, with illegal migrants restricted to a single route of appeal that also fast-tracks cases with little chance of succeeding to fast-track removals.

Modern slavery laws will also be reformed, meaning anyone crossing the Channel must make an appeal on modern slavery grounds immediately and not months or years into the process.

The Government is also set to push harder for cross-Europe reform to Article 3 of the ECHR, arguing that the current definition of the treaty’s provisions to prevent “inhuman and degrading treatment” has “expanded beyond what is reasonable”.

However these reforms could take years and require cross-border cooperation to push for changes from the Council of Europe.