Asylum seekers will be denied the right to stay in the UK if they have been convicted of sexual offences, the government has announced. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said “they should not be given the kinds of protection that asylum gives to people who have fled persecution and conflict”.
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00:00We're changing the law because we know that there have been cases of people who are sex offenders on the register who have been granted asylum and asylum protection in the UK.
00:12I think that is wrong and that's why we're changing the law to prevent that happening in future.
00:16Well the first step we're taking is to strengthen the law so that we can prevent people who are on sex offender registers from being granted asylum protection in this country.
00:26They should not be given refugee status, they should not be being given the kinds of protection that asylum gives to people who have fled persecution and conflict.