UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has turned to Denmark as a model for tougher measures to crackdown on soaring migration figures, with plans for tighter controls and an overhaul of the asylum system, according to British media reports this weekend. Denmark is seen as one of the toughest countries in Europe on immigration and Mahmood is said to have dispatched senior Home Office officials to Copenhagen recently to study some of the lessons that could be applied to the UK. In the Scandinavian country, most people who have been successfully granted asylum when fleeing conflicts are only allowed to remain in the country on a temporary basis until the Danish Government decrees their home countries as safe for them to be returned.
