Thom Brooks: Government is repeating same old lines about stopping boats, unable to acknowledge failure of Brexit deal.

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

Rishi Sunak has made stopping the small boats one of his top five priorities, but is he trying to solve a problem of their own making? / A report out from Durham University could make some awkward reading for prime minister Rishi Sunak.

Boris Johnson became prime minister on the promise that Brexit would bring prosperity and pride. Did it?

Rishi Sunak should admit ‘main factor’ behind problem so he can fix it, says Durham University study.

One question frequently asked by those who are sceptical of asylum seekers is “why don’t migrants stop in the first safe country that they get to.” / “Actually one of the reasons for that is because of the fact we left the European Union” - Anoosh Chakelian.

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.

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.

A European Court of Human Rights ruling stopped the flight. It is a totally separate institution from the EU.

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

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

Brussels commissioner says bill breaches convention, as legal experts warn of risk to Brexit trade deal.

Ministers must stop trying to find ‘magical solutions’ like the Rwanda deal and fix administrative problems, report finds.

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.

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

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.

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

The migrant crisis has exposed a common fallacy about Brexit, that you can simply "pull up the drawbridge" and wish it away.

Hungary will sign a trade and development deal between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific states after it was promised amendments it sought, the Central European country's foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday.

Brexit has not only failed to deliver on its promise of reducing immigration and controlling borders, but it has also made the immigration issue worse and more difficult to manage. The government’s chaotic and ineffective immigration policies, such as the Rwanda policy, have only added to the problem.

"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."

Just 1.3 per cent of asylum seekers have been sent back by a Home Office unit set up to assess claims following extra “bureaucracy” following Brexit, figures show.

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

This week Professor Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government, launched the most comprehensive report into the issue of asylum seekers using small boats to cross the Channel to Britain. A key finding of the 55 page report is that the Government's Brexit deal is a primary factor.

We could find no evidence that this has ever been successfully put forward as a reason for an asylum seeker to be granted the right to remain in the UK. A similar claim made in 2011 by Theresa May was widely debunked at the time.

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.

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.

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”.

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

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

Thom Brooks’ report reveals the Government has created the Channel migration ‘small boats’ crisis through its hard Brexit policies.

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.

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.

Boris Johnson was accused of “ransacking” Brits’ human rights tonight as he blocks fights against his government being heard in court.

Speaking on LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr, David Davis said the European Research Group (ERG), and those on the right of the Tory Party, who want to undermine the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) are "playing with Brexit fire" and risk "destroying Brexit" over proposed amends to the Rwanda immigration Bill.

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

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

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 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.

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