Home Secretary Priti Patel
PRITI PATEL’S planned overhaul of the asylum system will undermine the rule of law and access to justice, lawyers warned as a “sham” consultation on the changes closed this week.
Under the Home Secretary’s proposed system, asylum-seekers who enter Britain via an illegal route would be denied the right to permanently settle even if their claims are successful.
Those who come through official resettlement schemes would be granted indefinite leave to remain.
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
