Charlie StrossHaving lived through Jack Straw and David Blunkett's terms as Home Secretary I had no particular optimism that Starmer's pick would be any better, but Mahmood is knocking the authoritarianism right out of the ball park: seems to have calibrated her jackboots against those worn by Patel and Braverman.
Jeztastic@cstross The Labour drift to the right started in their era. The policy to remove right to food and accommodation for legal asylum seekers who didn't claim asylum in the first country they passed through for example. Essentially making people completely destitute, this was under Blunkett IIRC.