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Nicholas Cecil

No new safe and legal routes for asylum seekers to UK before ‘small boats’ stopped, says minister

New safe and legal routes for asylum seekers to enter Britain should only be established once the flow of “small boats” across the Channel has been stopped, a minister said on Monday.

Policing minister Chris Philp insisted this should be the “sequencing” as MPs returned to Westminster for a showdown over the Government’s deeply controversial Illegal Migration Bill.

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