Shabana Mahmood swears at hecklers over Reform UK claims

Shabana Mahmood has told “white liberals” to “f**k right off” after she was accused of imitating the policies of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

The heckler said he wanted to “personally thank you for out-Reforming Reform”, followed by chants of “refugees welcome” by two others in the crowd.

“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,” she said.

“I’m a proud Englishwoman.

I’m a proud Brit, I’m a hugely proud Muslim.

That is the absolute core of my life,” she added.

Claiming there are racist motives behind the heckles, 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.

“That’s why I said this individual can just f**k right off, because I know I belong in my own country.

You’re not going to be able to do that to me.”
Mr Forde posted on X after the show that Ms Mahmood had “handled being screamed at by two posh yobs with total composure”.

He added: “Thank you to the rest of the audience who came along and behaved.”
She also unveiled plans to make the refugee status for asylum seekers temporary, to be under review every 30 months.

Former deputy prime minister and rumoured leadership contender Angela Rayner has been among the Labour MPs who have criticised the plans .

An open letter, signed by more than 100 charities and sent to Ms Mahmood last year, said: “Targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle these structural issues or improve people’s lives.

It only serves as a dangerous smokescreen to scapegoat the most vulnerable and distract from the very real dangers to our society .”
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