Patel Vows Overhaul of ‘Fundamentally Broken’ U.K. Asylum System

Oct 3, 2020

Home Secretary Priti Patel will announce the biggest overhaul of the U.K.’s “fundamentally broken” asylum system in decades as the government tries to push on with a domestic agenda crippled by the pandemic.

Patel will use a speech at the online Conservative Party conference on Sunday to set out what she calls a “firm and fair” immigration approach, according to her office, after it emerged last week that ministers are examining whether to process asylum seekers in offshore holding centers.

The proposals include holding people on disused ferries moored off the coast, or sending them to the Atlantic islands of Ascension and St. Helena, which are overseas British territories more than 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) away.

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