UK Vows Asylum Reform Amid Farage Attacks and Record Arrivals

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the country’s asylum system needs “substantial reforms” as she laid out plans to reduce record flows of migrants arriving in small boats across the English Channel.

Laying out the plans in the House of Commons on Monday, Cooper said the government would create an independent body to deal with asylum appeals, increase detention and returns capacity, temporarily suspend refugee family reunion routes and change the way certain parts of the European Convention on Human Rights is interpreted.