Will the government’s “stop the boats” plan work?
Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
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Do You Think the Bill Will Deter People?
This is the latest in a long line of policies that are driven by what some people describe as pull factor orthodoxy. It's the same thinking that is behind the Rwanda scheme and why the permanent secretary of the home office Matthew Reichroft sought a ministerial direction for that scheme. Most evidence suggests that links to the country are stronger than particular changes to asylum policy. So essentially there isn't the evidence really to back up that deterrence case.
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