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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Ambrose

Sunak ‘plans to stop deportation appeals’ for people who reach UK in small boats

People picked up at sea trying to cross the Channel are helped ashore from an RNLI lifeboat at Dungeness, Kent, in December
People picked up at sea trying to cross the Channel are helped ashore from an RNLI lifeboat at Dungeness, Kent, in December. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

Rishi Sunak is proposing to stop asylum seekers who cross the Channel in small boats from appealing against their deportation, according to reports.

The Home Office, led by Suella Braverman, had put forward two options for the prime minister’s consideration as he attempts to automatically prevent those arriving in Britain from claiming asylum, the Times reported.

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