Home Office considers detention and ban for people entering illegally

Tough measures to address big concern' for Tory voters are among suggestions in report by rightwing thinktank

Locking up people who enter the country illegally and barring them from ever settling in the UK are options" under consideration by Suella Braverman and No 10 as the government puts a crackdown on small boats at the heart of its agenda.

The ideas are contained in a report by the rightwing thinktank the Centre for Policy Studies, for which Braverman wrote a foreword.