UN refugee agency hits out at Priti Patel's plans for UK asylum overhaul

Home secretary says migrants who arrive in UK by illegal routes will be indefinitely liable for removal

The UK home secretary, Priti Patel, is misrepresenting international law to push her hardline agenda against asylum seekers as she unveils a sweeping set of punishing proposals, the UN's refugee agency has suggested.

In what has been billed as the biggest overhaul of the UK's asylum system in decades, Patel has pledged to remove people who enter the UK illegally having travelled through a safe country" in which they could and should have claimed asylum.