The Labour peer, who escaped to Britain as a child, condemns the “farce” of the UK’s visa rules for fleeing Ukrainians.

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

The issue that is most worrying Tory MPs this week is small boats. “We’d be in the same club as Russia and Belarus,” says one minister. “It’s not a good idea.” It’s also the case that the ECHR is integral to the Good Friday Agreement. Such a move could lead to resignations.

The government's Illegal Migration Act is facing a court challenge from the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) on the ground that it breaches the Windsor Framework.

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.

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

France will not be ‘hostages to British domestic politics’, says interior minister.

Torture survivors and lone children stuck in Greece and Italy after Home Office ‘deliberately’ ends cooperation on family reunions. / “Before Brexit, there was a clear process for children to join their families in the UK, but since then the government has failed to communicate effectively with European authorities,” said Bethany Gardiner-Smith.

Bid to force Boris Johnson to act thrown out – despite charities warning youngsters are in danger as they are forced to turn to smugglers.

It is wrong to argue that the UK’s inability to return asylum seekers to the EU is driving the increase in the number crossing the Channel. / While there is evidence that Brexit is having an impact on small boat crossings, the migration data does not support Brooks’ analysis. Rather, it suggests that Brexit-related labour shortages with the potential for exploitation, is more significant.

The supreme irony is that, despite all those Vote Leave promises, Brexit is making it harder to control UK borders.

Rishi Sunak's triumphalism over solutions on Northern Ireland and migrant boats ignores the fact the issues only arose because of Johnson's flawed Brexit deal - which he endorsed.

Some 45,756 people are thought to have made the crossing in 2022. There were no recorded small boat crossings until 2018.

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

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”.

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

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

The gangs running small boats into the UK have ‘never had it so good’ – and Brexit has played a large part. People smugglers claim Brexit ‘has played into their hands’.

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.

Governments must acknowledge the fundamental reality that migrant workers don’t take jobs and benefits, but fill in essential labour needs

When we think about EU citizens and Brexit, we must factor in former refugees who’ve already faced displacement. Not only is the uncertainty inconvenient, it can be life-threatening.

"Families should be together," says Lord Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child and led peers' immigration bill revolt.

Brexit has had little or no impact on the number of people seeking asylum in the UK or the government’s response.

Listen to Nigel Farage and he'll tell you the biggest problem in Dover is a swarm of immigrants, flooding its beaches. / But the number of people crossing the English Channel in small boats is relatively small. / Meanwhile, the UK haulage industry has been brought to its knees by a driver shortage induced by Brexit and coronavirus.