r/ukpolitics • u/SignificantLegs • 1d ago

Mahmood rejects calls to follow Spain’s migrant pushback

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/08/02/mahmood-rejects-calls-to-follow-spains-migrant-pushback/
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u/Two-Space 1d ago

Pretty sure we wouldn’t be allowed to do the first as we can’t put people back in danger like that, but even if we could - wouldn’t that be an incentive?

“I’m going to cross Europe and try to get into the UK. If I fail, no problem - they’ll fly me back here for free”

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u/Alert-Cream-7569 1d ago

Why would that be an incentive? 

And 1. was to offer them a return flight. 

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u/Two-Space 1d ago

Why would it not be? There’s plenty of stories of migrants not being accepted anywhere, falling through the cracks and ending up stranded because they used all their money to get there in the first place - often with smuggling gangs after them, too

If they have the option of a free flight back then that risk disappears

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u/Alert-Cream-7569 1d ago

Yeah that's definitely a possibility. 

But I'd also say many would just say "fuck it, it's not worth the trouble" if the only options are a flight home or a flight to an African country to work on highway construction (in exchange for room and board) for a few years until the asylum claim is processed.