Dear @TomHunt1988, your statement on #politicslive that asylum seekers are obliged to seek asylum in the first safe country they enter is wrong. There is no such requirement under either the Geneva Convention on Refugees or UK law.
The EU's Dublin agreement allowed EU countries to send asylum seekers to other EU countries for claims processing. But the UK is no longer party to the Dublin agreement. So it can no longer send asylum seekers to other EU countries for claims processing.
This is a consequence of the Brexit you supported, @TomHunt1988. Own your mistakes, please. And learn what the law says. You should not make egregiously wrong statements on flagship politics programmes.
Furthermore, @tomHunt1988, young men can be legitimate refugees, and many are. 75% of those arriving here in small boats make successful asylum claims.
Some of those arriving in small boats are Afghans who worked with British forces. They were abandoned by the British Government last year and are now in fear of their lives. Yet the Home Office completely failed to provide them with safe legal routes to seek asylum in the UK.
And you now want to compound the UK's abject failure to protect those who worked with its armed forces by deporting them to Rwanda? Really?
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