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’ve been listening this week to BBC Radio’s Nick Robinson reporting from Tunisia on the plight of African would-be migrants stuck in absolutely appalling conditions on Tunisian shores; and to further reports from Greece about the suspected drowning of some 600 in a boat that sank. The reports are heartbreaking. They strengthen my uncomfortable but nagging suspicion that the British government is right to try the Rwanda experiment.
The House of Lords has returned the government’s Illegal Migration Bill to the Commons with amendments that (it’s fair to say) substantially thwart its purpose: to establish, not least in the minds of would-be migrants, that anyone who arrives here illegally will be swiftly removed to a “safe” third country. Word travels fast these days, even within
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