By Tony Vaughan

The Home Secretary is right that public trust and confidence in our asylum system has been ebbing away.

And she is right to say that it falls to this Labour Government to introduce meaningful, practical change to fix the system.

The critical question is not whether the asylum system is fine as it. The question is what change and how.

There are very clear positives in the asylum policy paper: expansion of safe and legal routes to claim asylum – avoiding the need to make a dangerous crossing; community sponsorship of refugees; commitment to cutting decision and appeal backlogs.

But I want to talk about just two very real concerns I have about these proposals.

First, the idea that we should make refugee status temporary, with rolling reviews for up to 20 years until the Government decides their home country is........

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