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Why ‘safe routes’ to asylum can’t work

11 March 2023

9:00 AM

11 March 2023

9:00 AM

I have never met Enver Solomon, the chief executive of the Refugee Council, but I have not the least doubt that his heart is in the right place. And that’s the problem. In the current and coming furore about small boat crossings and what to do about them, too many who comment are concerned to show that their heart is in the right place.

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