Tag: small boats

• Tuesday, August 8th 2023 - 14:14 UTC

  Home Office confirms Ascension Island plan for asylum seekers has been revived, “times change”

  

  London media is reporting a Home Office minister confirmed the UK Government is looking at “additional measures” following reports that plans to send asylum seekers to Ascension Island could be revived.

• Monday, August 7th 2023 - 08:32 UTC

  London considering Ascension island as plan B, if the scheme to send irregular migrants to Rwanda fails

  

  The UK Government is reportedly considering reviving plans to fly people who arrive in the UK by unauthorized means to Ascension Island. Multiple reports say ministers and officials are considering the island as a “plan B” if the scheme to send migrants to Rwanda fails. plan B” if the scheme to send migrants to Rwanda fails.