Home Office pledge follows threats of Tory backbench rebellion against controversial illegal migration bill
Ministers have pledged to only detain refugee children in “exceptional circumstances” under a new asylum bill after threats of a rebellion from backbench Conservative MPs.
MPs from the right of the Conservative party successfully lobbied Rishi Sunak last week to harden the proposed legislation, allowing a home secretaryAn analysis by the Refugee Council and Barnardo’s said nearly 15,000 refugee children separated from their families could be detained in the first three years after the law came into effect.
According to a Refugee Council impact assessment based on projections of government figures, 13,089-14,935 unaccompanied children and 26,483-30,218 minors with family members will have their asylum claims deemed inadmissible in the first three years of the legislation came into force. However, he said the ability for Britain to block Strasbourg judges’ rulings would not apply to all its verdicts, telling Sky News: “I’m not saying that will give the home secretary carte blanche to overrule rulings.
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