Jacob Rees-Mogg: The Channel illegal migrant crisis can’t be blamed on Brexit
When the Dublin Convention was signed in 1990, it established the rules for determining which participating European country is responsible for examining an asylum application. Britain was one of the original signatories.
These regulations, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg explains, “were a means of returning asylum seekers to another European country, and therefore sharing the burden across the EU and sending them back to the country that they’d come from, other than the obvious entry points”.
Since our departure from the EU, a growing chorus of voices has repeated the claim that the Dublin Regulation had kept illegal Channel crossings under control. Brexit, it is claimed, robbed us of the right to share the burden of settling asylum seekers with countries bound by the Convention.
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Read more from Dia Chakravarty: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/17/the-channel-illegal-migrant-crisis-cant-be-blamed-on-brexit/
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