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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Home Office considers detention and ban for people entering illegally

People on a boat are brought ashore
Officials escort migrants ashore at Dover docks after they crossed the English Channel in August. Photograph: Stuart Brock/EPA

Locking up people who enter the country illegally and barring them from ever settling in the UK are “options” under consideration by Suella Braverman and No 10 as the government puts a crackdown on small boats at the heart of its agenda.

The ideas are contained in a report by the rightwing thinktank the Centre for Policy Studies, for which Braverman wrote a foreword.

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