The government will publish measures to increase the number of removals of people whose asylum claims have failed, the home secretary Charles Clarke announced this week, writes Amy Taylor.
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The news of the five year plan, which will be published next month, came as the Conservatives announced a raft of new asylum proposals in the run up to the general election.
Shadow home secretary David Davis said that the Conservatives would pull out of the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees on the grounds that it prevents a British government from taking immediate action to deport asylum seekers whose claims are "obviously not genuine".
The party would also outlaw people from claiming asylum in
Britain and instead take an annual quota of refugees in the care
the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
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