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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rajeev Syal and Peter Walker

Suella Braverman: small boats plan will push boundaries of international law

People are helped ashore from an RNLI lifeboat at a beach in Dungeness, Kent, after being rescued while crossing the Channel
People are helped ashore from an RNLI lifeboat at a beach in Dungeness, Kent, after being rescued while crossing the Channel. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

Suella Braverman has admitted the government is attempting to push “the boundaries of international law” with legislation aimed at reducing small boat crossings in the Channel.

The law, to be disclosed to MPs at lunchtime on Tuesday, is expected to place a legal duty on the home secretary to detain and remove nearly all asylum seekers who arrive “irregularly” such as via small boats in the Channel.

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