New Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is settling into the job: laying out her firm no-nonsense approach to migration and ruffling feathers just days into the job after she suggested that some people were abusing the justice system in order to avoid deportation from Britain. Now she has a new challenge on her hands: it transpires that an Afghan refugee is being investigated by the Home Office after he was granted asylum but appeared to go back to his home country on, er, holiday. You couldn’t make it up…

DG Usama came to the UK in April 2022 after crossing the English Channel on a dingy. On arrival, he claimed asylum, telling UK officials that Taliban-controlled Afghanistan was too dangerous to return to. As reported by the Sun , it isn’t quite clear exactly when Usama was granted asylum –

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