Four people have died after a small boat carrying migrants capsized
while crossing the Channel from France in freezing conditions.
At least 430 migrants crossed the English Channel to the UK yesterday,
according to the Home Office, a new record for a single day.
I would love to be here saying, well, claiming victory.
I would love to be having a front page of the telegraph of the flight, a plane taking off to Rwanda.
That's my dream.
That's my dream.
When will that happen?
Suella Braverman, the UK Home Secretary, could soon be sending some asylum seekers on a one-way flight to Rwanda.
Her plan has been grounded for now by legal challenges from charities representing them,
but she's confident it will go ahead after a recent win in the High Court.
Welcome to LSEIQ, the podcast where we ask social scientists and other experts to answer one intelligent question.
I'm Joanna Bale from the IQ team where we work with academics to bring you their latest research and ideas and talk to people affected by the issues we explore.
In this episode I ask, how can we solve the refugee crisis?
The expression refugee crisis has dominated the media over the past two decades and the terms refugee,
asylum seeker and migrant are often used interchangeably,
but it's important to distinguish between them as there's a legal difference which we will explore.
I'm going to talk to a former left-tenant colonel, now LSEIQ,
who argues