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A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel
THERESA MAY has become the latest senior Tory to speak out against Priti Patel’s asylum deal with Rwanda.
Speaking in the Commons today, the architect of Britain’s hostile environment policy told her successor as home secretary that she did not support the plan to send asylum-seekers 4,000 miles to the central African country on the grounds of “legality, practicality and efficacy.”
The former prime minister urged Ms Patel to disclose the criteria for sending people to Rwanda and provide evidence that the widely condemned proposals will not lead to an increase in the trafficking of women and children.
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE