Forget 28 days - 28 years later... This week, Shabana Mahmood talked tough on illegal migration.
Ms Mahmood said: "It is our creed as the Labour Party, that the state can and must be a force for good. Without the trust of citizens in the state, there is no space for Labour values in any part of Government to be realised.
"Restoring order and control at our border is not a betrayal of Labour values.
"It is the necessary condition for a Labour Government to achieve anything it hopes to. It is within that context that I am embarking on some of the most significant reforms to migration, both legal and asylum, in a generation."
Sounds good, sounds good. She also talked tough about protecting taxpayers' money.
She said: "It is an affront to every family currently waiting for social housing to those who have already spent too long on an NHS waiting list, and to British taxpayers who will inevitably foot the bill."
It was all going so well until this.
"This Government will now pilot a similar model for families who are failed asylum seekers, a small number of whom will now be offered an increased incentive payment of £10,000 per person and up to a maximum of £40,000 per family," she said.
Come again? So let me get this straight.
We are going to pay failed asylum seekers up to £40,000 to leave instead of putting them in secured accommodation and detaining them on arrival and keeping them there until their claim is processed, like what they would do in countries that, oddly, many of those who have travelled across numerous safe countries never seek refuge from.
Who wants to be locked up when you could get to the UK, be free to roam, be accommodated ahead of the people who actually live here and be given direct access to medical and dental care?
Again, ahead of the people of this country, and then be given up to £40,000 to leave, higher than the average income. I quite fancy that myself.
And what's to stop you from coming back? Remember the hokey cokey migrant? One in, one out - yeah, that was her previous idea.
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And even if you are lined up for deportation, you can repeatedly appeal like Bangladeshi illegal migrant Munna Miah who entered Britain illegally over 28 years ago.
Munna has won a reprieve from deportation and will be able to challenge his removal again after he entered the UK in 1998.
He has fought his deportation many times, even trying to apply for indefinite leave to remain because he'd been in the UK for over 20 years.
The absolute cheek of it... This time around his claim on human rights grounds was dismissed yet he appealed again. He claimed that errors had been made in how the evidence was treated, and an Upper Tribunal judge agreed with him.
So another hearing is going to take place. I mean, frankly, who's paying for all of this? Guess.
How on earth will offering a cash incentive to people like this discourage others from illegally entering this country? The answer is it won't. Some 40,000 is just over 6.5 million in Bangladeshi taka.
Now, the average monthly wage in Bangladesh is £200. That's £2,400 per year. I'd say that offering someone anything from £10,000 to £40,000 for having entered here illegally is utter madness.
I don't buy the argument that it'll cost us less in the long term. We shouldn't be paying for it at all.
Shabana, you could do better than that. I'm sorry, but I don't want you to spend my hard earned taxes on that. Think again.
Because I can guarantee you, Shabana, that if you remove the incentives rather than giving out more, that would do the job.
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