A REFUGEE charity and Civil Service union are calling for a Ukraine visa-style scheme to be rolled out for other asylum-seekers as a “humane alternative” to the Tories’ Rwanda policy. 

The proposal, set out in a policy paper launched in Parliament today, is to create a “safe passage visa” allowing refugees to cross the English Channel without risking their lives beforing applying for asylum in Britain. 

Care4Calais and the PCS union say that their plan offers an alternative solution to the “dangerous and uncontrolled situation” in the Channel, moving away from the government’s “morally reprehensible” treatment of asylum-seekers.