Home secretary to announce a drastic tightening of rules, including requiring asylum seekers to wait 20 years before getting the right to permanently settle in UK The Labour MP Diane Abbott has strongly condemned the government’s asylum plans in two posts on social media. Draconian, unworkable and potentially illegal anti-asylum policies only feed Reform’s support. The government has learnt nothing from the period since the general election. Some of the legal changes being proposed are truly frightening: Abolishing the right to a family life would ultimately affect many more people than asylum-seekers. The home secretary sounds like a Reform supporter. It’s a shame that the Human Rights Act, ECHR and her own backbenchers mean that this will never happen. The government are pretending to be tough, but while inside the ECHR they will get stopped in their tracks by leftwing lawyers and judges – probably including their own attorney general. The only way to control our borders is to leave the ECHR and deport every single illegal immigrant upon arrival, with no court hearings. Continue reading...