Refugees will only have one chance to appeal their deportation in new plans announced by the Home Secretary in her bid to stop the UK being ‘the destination of choice in Europe’ for people smugglers.

Shabana Mahmood set out ‘hard-headed’ measures to overhaul asylum policy to MPs on Monday, and make it easier for the Government to remove people with no right to be in the country.

People granted asylum in the UK will only be allowed to stay in the country temporarily, with their status reviewed every 30 months, shortened from five years.

She promised: ‘We will remove people we have not removed before, including families who have a safe home country they can return to.

‘We will remove people to countries where we have, until recently, paused returns.’

Ms Mahmood said there were ‘around 7

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