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.
Tories will block courts from ruling on human rights violations in 'dangerous power grab'
22/06/2022
Boris Johnson was accused of “ransacking” Brits’ human rights tonight as he blocks fights against his government being heard in court.
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.
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.
‘Unprecedented levels of self-harm and suicidal thoughts’ were recorded at the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in late 2020
Refugees face risk of deportation under Priti Patel’s ‘cruel’ asylum overhaul, charities warn
24/03/2021
Plans to deny automatic right to asylum to refugees arriving in UK via unauthorised routes spark alarm.
Rishi Sunak should admit ‘main factor’ behind problem so he can fix it, says Durham University study.
Priti Patel accused of breaking Geneva Convention with plans to deny asylum rights to refugees crossing Channel [2 mins]
24/03/2021
Home secretary admits she is yet to secure ‘safe legal routes’ promised as alternative to harsh measures.
EU takes Hungary's far-right government to court for making it illegal to help asylum seekers
25/07/2019
The European Commission has taken Hungary to court over a controversial new law that makes it illegal to give assistance to asylum seekers.
Opt-out from parts of European convention would speed up deportation of asylum seekers.
Academic report says UK’s failure to negotiate post-Brexit returns agreement is main reason for increase in asylum seekers making small boat crossings
10/02/2023
Thom Brooks: Government is repeating same old lines about stopping boats, unable to acknowledge failure of Brexit deal.
"Happy Magna Carta day! Let's celebrate due process and equality before the law since 1215! Or, as the Tories would have it, meddling lefty lawyers."
Brexit after Boris
31/07/2022
Boris Johnson became prime minister on the promise that Brexit would bring prosperity and pride. Did it?
Legal experts condemn ‘disgraceful and illegal manipulation of system’.
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.
UNHCR: UK asylum bill would break international law, damaging refugees and global co-operation
23/09/2021
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.
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.
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”.
UK set to lose right to transfer refugees to other EU countries under Dublin regulation.
Boris Johnson wrong to use Brexit to justify ‘morally delinquent’ Rwanda plan, says senior Tory
19/04/2022
‘We are better than this – or at least, we used to be’, says David Davis.
Government’s post-Brexit failures – not Channel migrant crossings – broke UK asylum system, MPs say
18/07/2022
Ministers must stop trying to find ‘magical solutions’ like the Rwanda deal and fix administrative problems, report finds.
Legal experts say Brussels has right to take retaliatory action, making cross-border law enforcement harder. / We have noted the reaction of the United Nations, and they are really concerned about what’s going on,” Anton Hofreiter, the chair of the committee, told reporters in London.