Deportation of asylum seekers: Johnson successor sticks to Rwanda plan

Great Britain wants to further tighten its rigid migration policy.

Deportation of asylum seekers: Johnson successor sticks to Rwanda plan

Great Britain wants to further tighten its rigid migration policy. After London is already planning deportation flights for migrants to Rwanda, it would also like to get other countries on board. The two candidates for Johnson's successor plan further measures.

Little will change in the tough treatment of asylum seekers in Great Britain even after the departure of outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Secretary of State Liz Truss and ex-Treasury Secretary Rishi Sunak - the two candidates to succeed Johnson - confirmed at the weekend that they wanted to stick to the plan to fly certain asylum seekers to Rwanda.

The United Nations consider this a breach of international law, and England's highest bishops consider it "a disgrace to Great Britain". So far, no asylum seekers have been flown to the East African country, as the European Court of Human Rights stopped the first planned flight in June with an injunction. Another judicial review is currently underway.

Sunak wants to tighten the requirements for when someone is granted asylum in Great Britain and set an upper limit for refugees. Truss wants to increase the number of border guards to crack down on smugglers. She also wants to conclude other similar agreements with countries like Rwanda, she told the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

However, Great Britain has already been rebuffed by numerous countries with this attempt. One of the central promises of Brexit was to regain control of one's own borders. It is therefore a thorn in the side of the Conservatives that the number of people seeking protection, who often travel across the English Channel to Great Britain on unsafe rubber dinghies, is steadily increasing. Tory party members will vote on who will move into Downing Street in September in the coming weeks.