A former top Rwanda diplomat forced into exile has attacked government claims that his country is safe to receive refugees from the UK – likening it to “a detention camp”.

‘We are better than this – or at least, we used to be’, says David Davis.

The government’s attack on the Human Rights Act is a betrayal of those Conservatives who helped create it.

Letter from detainees urges MPs not to back nationality and borders bill to be debated in parliament this week.

Former Brexit secretary David Davis says Priti Patel’s plans could foster a situation similar to notorious US detention camp.

The Dublin Regulation meant that anyone who had set foot in another EU country first could be returned to that country, but this law no longer stands. Those who make the crossing know it will be difficult for Britain to return them to France.

As it stands, the UK Nationality and Borders Bill would penalise most refugees seeking asylum in the country via damaging and unjustified penalties, creating an asylum model that undermines established international refugee protection rules and practices, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said Wednesday.

Despite promises by the home secretary to make the route across the Channel "unviable", the number of people completing the crossing has reached record highs.

‘Unprecedented levels of self-harm and suicidal thoughts’ were recorded at the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in late 2020

Home secretary admits she is yet to secure ‘safe legal routes’ promised as alternative to harsh measures.

Plans to deny automatic right to asylum to refugees arriving in UK via unauthorised routes spark alarm.

Since 1 January 2021 people seeking asylum in Europe, be they adults or children, have been far less likely to reunite with their family in the UK.

System for dispersing child asylum seekers to local councils is ‘buckling’, says children’s commissioner.

Opt-out from parts of European convention would speed up deportation of asylum seekers.

UK set to lose right to transfer refugees to other EU countries under Dublin regulation.

The Home Office is preparing to end the current system of family reunification for asylum-seeking children if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the Guardian has learned.

The European Commission has taken Hungary to court over a controversial new law that makes it illegal to give assistance to asylum seekers.

Legal experts condemn ‘disgraceful and illegal manipulation of system’.