It is amazing that it has taken so long for a Home Secretary to suggest that asylum should be sought in the first EU country of arrival. The purpose of asylum is to protect people who have a well-founded fear of persecution. I fully understand that most migrants/asylum seekers would prefer to settle in the UK and have no intention of returning to their homelands in any circumstances because we are a more tolerant and economically vibrant economy than any other in Europe. If the UK and EU had been able to formulate a sensible plan for migration, Brexit would have been highly unlikely to have happened.
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