Why things don’t bode well for Afghans seeking asylum in the UK

Analysis: For 20 years Home Office has gone to extreme lengths to return Afghans to country they risked their lives to flee

Announcing that Britain is looking at a bespoke arrangement" for Afghan refugees, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, declared on Tuesday that Britain was a big-hearted nation" which had always been a country that has provided safe haven for those fleeing persecution".

This is not a picture of Britain's asylum system that many Afghan asylum seekers in the UK will recognise. Over the past 20 years, the Home Office has gone to extreme lengths to return thousands of them back to the country they risked their lives to flee.