Recommendation 8

Clause 2, taken together with clauses 4 and 5 (which provide for the inadmissibility of asylum and human rights claims and removal from the UK), penalises refugees who come to the UK irregularly and indirectly, including children and victims of modern slavery, by denying them access to the asylum system and making them liable to removal. This is, in effect, a near-ban on asylum and humanitarian protection. Extinguishing the right of asylum for refugees arriving in the UK breaches the object and purpose of the Refugee Convention with which we are bound, in good faith, to comply.