The British government says it's trying to 'stop the boats', but one of its solutions — a giant, grey barge designed to house 500 asylum seekers — is proving controversial.
Dull because it's hard to imagine something more boring than a giant, grey box, floating in the water.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government says it is spending £6 million a day accommodating refugees in hotels while they wait for their asylum applications to be assessed. Robin Cohen, an emeritus professor and former director of Oxford University's International Migration Institute, has been examining the British government's hardening immigration policies and rhetoric.
In May, Australia's former high commissioner to the UK, George Brandis, told British television station GB News it "really annoys" him when people approached the migration debate as if it were "something other than an attempt by the UK government to deal with this evil crime of people smuggling". Under the Illegal Migration Act, refugees who attempt to cross the English Channel in small boats will be returned to their home nation or resettled in a "safe third country".However, last month, the Court of Appeal ruled that plan unlawful.
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