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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
John Stevens

Children will NOT be exempt from plan to lock up asylum seekers, insists Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak has insisted children will not be exempted from his plan to lock up asylum seekers who cross the Channel.

The PM was confronted by one of his own MPs over his controversial bid to detain and deport new arrivals.

Caroline Nokes, a Tory MP who has likened Mr Sunak's "horrendous" asylum plans to Donald Trump's "caging of children", pressed the PM over the detention of children.

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