A new law is set to ban migrants from making UK asylum claims when intercepted at sea by Border Force vessels after Brexit.
Chris Philp, the immigration minister, announced the move last night as part of planned reforms to what he described as the UK’s “broken” asylum system.
The announcement came as 40 migrants who had made the Channel crossing had to be taken off deportation flights after lawyers challenged their removal on human rights grounds, claiming that they were victims of modern slavery.
The new proposed law will replace the Dublin regulation agreement with the EU, where claims can be rejected on the grounds that migrants should apply for asylum in the first EU country they reach. Eight thousand migrants have reached the UK
