UK toughens asylum system with radical overhaul
The UK government on Monday unveiled dramatic changes to its asylum system, including drastically cutting protections for refugees and their children, seeking to stem a wave of irregular migrants which has fuelled rising anger on the far-right.
Under the new proposals, the government will also threaten visa bans for countries that refuse to take back irregular immigrants.
The plans have been dubbed by the centre-left Labour government as the “most sweeping reforms to tackle illegal migration in modern times”.
Refugee protections
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood told lawmakers the reforms – modelled on Denmark’s strict asylum system – would discourage migrants from crossing the Channel from France on small boats.
Describing the current system as “out of control and unfair”, she said it was an “uncomfortable truth” that the…
