Outrage over scheme to electronically tag asylum seekers arriving in UK

There is no evidence asylum seekers are absconding' but Boris Johnson insists pilot must go ahead

The Home Office has been accused of victim blaming" asylum seekers after launching a scheme to electronically tag refugees arriving in the UK.

Ministers faced calls to abandon the farce of a policy" after suggestions that those who recently avoided being sent to Rwanda after a legal challenge could be among the first to be tagged under the programme.