Britain’s New Radical Home Secretary May Endanger US-UK Intelligence Sharing
“Alarm bells are already ringing in Washington over this hugely controversial appointment. Intelligence sharing between the US and UK could be threatened as a result of it.”
Following the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner on Friday amid allegations of tax evasion, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer undertook a major cabinet reshuffle, announcing the appointment of Shabana Mahmood as the United Kingdom’s new Home Secretary. Starmer’s decision reverberated well beyond Westminster, sending shockwaves from London to Washington, D.C. She will oversee borders, police, and immigration.
Mahmood’s website states that she is “a passionate supporter of Palestinian rights.” According to 7 Israel National News, “she was born in Birmingham to parents of Pakistani descent” and has “a history of supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.”
In the video below, Mahmood is shown at a pro-Palestinian rally in her hometown.
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood has become the UK Home Secretary. She is in charge of immigration, visas, and borders,
Here she is at a rally calling for a “globalize the intifada.”
RIP UK.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 6, 2025
Shabana Mahmood, who swore her oath of parliamentary office on the Koran, is to be Starmer's new home secretary.
She will now be in charge of immigration and the borders.
Here she is saying islam to her is more important than anything.
Labour need removed. pic.twitter.com/LCUsRAXXZl
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) September 5, 2025
Foreign policy analyst Nile Gardiner said the choice has set off “alarm bells” in Washington, D.C. because of the threat it poses to future “intelligence sharing” between the U.S. and the U.K.
Alarm bells are already ringing in Washington over this hugely controversial appointment. Intelligence sharing between the US and UK could be threatened as a result of it. https://t.co/BIVzD5umD6
— Nile Gardiner (@NileGardiner) September 5, 2025
According to The Jewish Chronicle, in 2014, Mahmood, then serving as a Labour Party Member of Parliament, faced significant criticism from Jewish leaders for her involvement in an anti-Israel protest that forced the temporary closure of a supermarket. Mahmood participated in a demonstration outside a Sainsbury’s branch in Birmingham, objecting to the sale of goods alleged to originate from “illegal settlements.” She subsequently used social media to endorse a boycott of Israel — a stance at odds with official Labour Party policy.
At a rally the following week, Mahmood spoke proudly of her role in the demonstration:
I was with 200 activists outside Sainsbury’s in the centre of Birmingham. We lay down in the street and we laid down inside Sainsbury’s to say we object to them stocking goods from illegal settlements – and that they must stop. We managed to close down that store at peak time on a Saturday. This is how we can make a difference.
In the July 2014 tweet below, Mahmood invited followers to join her #bds #FreePalestine “demo.”
MT “@WMPSC: Join the Sainsbury demo in Birmingham City Centre this Saturday. #bds #FreePalestine http://t.co/3W036MMlK9” See you there.
— Shabana Mahmood MP (@ShabanaMahmood) July 31, 2014
In 2020, she signed the letter below that demanded illegal immigrants who had committed crimes be allowed to remain in the U.K.
BREAKING: The UK’s new Home Secretary is Shabana Mahmood.
In 2020 she signed a letter demanding that foreign criminals, including murderers and rapists, not to be deported. pic.twitter.com/10hi6VHVy7
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 5, 2025
In February 2024, Mahmood called for a two-state solution, as per 7 Israel:
Because a one-state solution does not make the people of Israel safe, it actually condemns them to insecurity and concerns for their safety in perpetuity.
And it is an outrage to adopt a position that says that the people of Israel can have self-determination but the people of Palestine cannot. That is not acceptable and we cannot allow the continued degradation and denigration of the fundamental human rights of the Palestinian people.
The following month, Fox News reported that Mahmood had called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and accused Israel of killing innocent civilians. In a letter to her constituents at the time, she wrote:
I have always supported a diplomatic process to stop the killing of innocent civilians, get humanitarian aid in and get the hostages out. But it is clear that diplomatic processes have not made sufficient progress. The conduct of this war has been intolerable, with a disproportionate level of attacks on innocent people that has rightly been the deliberations in international courts.
In July 2024, following Labour’s landslide victory in the general election, Starmer appointed Mahmood as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor.
One year later, Starmer delivered a speech clarifying the British Government’s position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although it began by acknowledging that “Hamas perpetrated the worst massacre in Israel’s history” on Oct. 7, 2023, it went on to detail the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
I can confirm the UK will recognise the state of Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly in September unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, agree to a ceasefire and commit to a long-term, sustainable peace, reviving the prospect of a Two State Solution.
It is hard to imagine that Mahmood’s fingerprints were not all over this ultimatum.
From a conservative perspective, at a moment when the United Kingdom is reeling from an unprecedented migrant crisis, Starmer could hardly have chosen a more ill-suited individual to take charge of the Home Office. To his critics, the appointment smacks of ideological posturing at the expense of national security and public confidence. Yet to Starmer and his circle, it is hailed as a calculated masterstroke — a defiant signal of his government’s priorities. Whether this gambit proves visionary or disastrously naïve will become clear soon enough.
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b/c the west needs more of a beatdown
thats the only way to look at whats going on
look at japan,, they have also created an uproar by agreeing to take in:
critics blast his government over its “African Hometown” program seen as a backdoor scheme to enable mass migration from Africa to Japan.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/09/07/japans-pm-shigeru-ishiba-resigns-as-critics-call-his-african-hometown-program-a-gateway-to-mass-migration/
its weird that the left says in order to improve our local world
we must bring in people who are un(der)educated and have a known history of NOT wanting to assimilate
the weird part being that the left is constantly able to get away with these treasonous acts
Kier Starmer is a traitor. He is making Britain unrecognizable.
When we had an active nuclear testing program, British nationals had access to our weapons labs. We would test British nuclear weapons for them. I don’t know what the situation is today. In any case, the US should deny any further sharing of any kind of sensitive data until we a change in British polices which only seem to be getting worse.
Starmer is not a traitor. He isn’t British, he is a globalist and his passion lies with the UN and International NGO’s.
Lady Thatcher discussed the ” special relationship ” between the US and the UK. Under Labour’s it’s become the special needs relationship.
Trump should immediately sever all intelligence ties with the
British CaliphateU.K. government. No need to be turning over any of that kind of information to a government that is most likely going to hand it over to the enemies of the United States.Well said.
Further problem is how many like her are already in their security services or likely to burrow into them while she is in charge.
Sire but not just over this appointment. IMO, we need to immediately pause all Intel sharing with any Nation who is seeking to fine/control US Corporations or Citizens via Orwellian speech/publication codes as well as any Nation which imposes trade barriers/bans/limits on US exports other than a reciprocal tariff rate. Either these Nations are our ‘Friends and Allies’ or they ain’t. If not then they can be categorized as a competitor rather than an opponent.
I see three problems here, all stemming from the fact that Britain is one of the Five Eyes nations, all of whom share intelligence gathering.
1. Much of the equipment used for this work in Britain is US-grade because we gave it to them.
2. If we don’t want Britain to obtain certain information, we can’t share it with Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, either.
3. The CIA routinely end-runs its restriction against spying on US citizens by having MI-6 spy on them for the CIA, and they return the favor by spying on UK citizens for MI-6. That means the UK has the infrastructure in place and well oiled for continued espionage inside the US.
The coming civil war in Britain will be fascinating to watch. I hope the native Brits have the backbone for what needs to be done.
It will be difficult to revolt.
You need to defeat the immigrants and the government, which is armed.
They’re going to need more than pitchforks and torches.
Hopefully some law enforcement and military will break from the government and side with the people.
The police seem very comfortable with the 2 tier justice system.
I’m about as pro-cop as one can be, but when I see what’s going on there, it’s like a Ray Bradbury novel.
Agree, being disarmed is a significant disadvantage.
I have been given to understand that there is going to be a massive demonstration against the british government and its policies on September 13 in London. This is, I suspect, where the Coercive Organs of State Power will use massive violence and/or deadly force against british subjects to convince them to submit.
Subotai Bahadur
The appointment of this woman is the day the UK pulled the curtain aside:
“This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.”
We shall see on the 13th who applauds and who does not.
I see no reason to share intelligence with a country that grinds its citizenry under the government heel for expressing themselves, flying their own flag, or protesting the rape and murder of their children by the garbage the government imports, feeds, houses, and otherwise cares for.
UK is in for a reckoning. Share no information with this woman. Amazing she made it so far up the food chain. Imagine Tlaib. So sad for the people, but Jews don’t matter. Look at Ireland. But to tie yourself to people like this lady is like slitting your throat, bleeding a drop at a time, then quickly gone.
Ha. The current situation has already become intolerable, The appointment of Shabana Mahmood represents a major tipping point. Even before her appointment, the British government told the world in certain terms that migrants officially supplant natives in the “hierarchy of rights.” See the Zero Hedge on 2025-09-05. Excerpts.
‘In fact, so-called “asylum seekers” (read: economic migrants) do enjoy superior rights to British people in Britain because… something, something “non-derogable fundamental human rights” as defined by the European Convention on Human Rights.”
“Asylum seekers’ rights are more important than the concerns of the people of Epping, the Home Office has declared.”
A British legacy media anchor recently posed the fundamental question in the starkest terms possible:
“Your lawyers under your guidance have said in terms that the rights of asylum seekers are more important than the rights of local people in Epping Forest…. Ministers can say we agree with that or we don’t agree with it… Do you agree with what your lawyers said or don’t you?”
“Yes, of course we do,” Member of Parliament Bridget Phillipson of the Labor Party replied.
“Refreshing honesty.”
Similar stories have appeared on the British website: dailysceptic dot org. This website publishes stores the BBC and the British government would prefer you not see.
A thousand years of history destroyed
Churchill is weeping
America is alone
Poland will rise.
Islam is a cancer in the West.
I’ve been saying this for awhile: ‘If the US military invaded England tomorrow, they would be hailed as liberators. Guaranteed.’
The sun has set on the British Empire.
I won’t say what many are thinking, but when the time comes, they had better win quick or be hanged.
ENDANGER?? Her nomination should cancel any and all intelligence. What ever we share will be in Terhan by morning. GB is now a third world country and must be treated as such.
The UK is toast! Soon to be burned to a crisp!
First killings then mass graves and then balkanization. The US needs to plan to arm the rebellion and have a response for when “they” get control of the military and nukes.
it appears that Sunni Islam will shortly become the national religion of Britain
“The office of Archbishop of Canterbury—the church’s [of England]highest-ranking prelate—has been vacant since January 7, 2025…”
They’re just looking for the right (or rather left) lesbian to elevate.
Western Europe is functionally no longer an ally of our country, especially britain. They are allied with the Islamic Counter-Crusade and can be considered an active enemy. We need to a) stop intelligence sharing with them, b) remove our personnel at all levels and specialties along with our strategic assets from britain and consider doing that for Western Europe, c) design our strategic and economic policy for OUR benefit and not theirs. It is a different world from the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Subotai Bahadur
True.
Lived curiously by the USAF in England 78 80. Also a lifelong military history buff, especially in the Napoleonic Wars. Sad to see the British Empire go down like like this.
How long before the call to prayer is broadcast from Big Ben 5 times a day? Pretty darn soon I’d wager as the muslim in charge of Londonistan has wrecked the city.
How can Palestinians be free if they are ruled by evil terrorist dictators?
You’re always free to Submit.
Things are going to get way worse before they get better. The next general elections in the UK won’t be until 2029. Because Labour enjoyed such a massive win in the most recent election, they don’t have to worry about a vote of no confidence; there’s no way they’re going to lose a vote of no confidence because their majority is so large.
I expect that sometime in the near future Starmer will on live TV declare himself to be Islamic. He will say the magic words and convert.
Don’t stop sharing information. Stop sharing _truthful_ information. Secretly create an Office of Deception and put them in control of all meetings with British officials,