
Grounded: Priti Patel’s broken asylum policy
Politics Weekly UK
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The European Court of Human Rights - Europe, the Eternal Bogy Man
The government's plan to deport refugees has been thwarted by the european court of human rights. The delay was triggered by the case of an araki man who claimed asylum in the u k. A doctor at a detention center suggested he may well have been a victim of torture, which underlines this awful moral grimness sitting at the heart of this policy. You wonder ready whether boris johnson is picking a fight ho thinks he can win ahead of the next election. And will it be necessary to change some laws to help us as we go along? It may very well be. All these options are under costat review thereyo go an menoesy the uk.
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